Perestroika, meaning “reconstruction ... the year after Gorbachev came to power. He came to the Soviet Union as the correspondent for a communist newspaper, The Canadian Tribune.

Colonel Alksnis, the grandson of a brigade commander during the Civil War (he even graduated from the military school named ...

The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic ... changing relations between the superpowers and Glasnost and Perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, Nobel peace prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev has died. He was widely considered one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century.