The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

"I was and remain faithful to that idea and the choice that I made," he stressed. The former Soviet leader said if he had remained at the helm of the state he would have carried out reforms "in ...

By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Warsaw Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement, which helped end Moscow’s grip on Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War, joined with former ...

Pyotr Luchinsky emphasized that when Gorbachev launched perestroika, he did not imagine how complicated the situation in the country was CHISINAU, August 31. /TASS/. Mikhail Gorbachev had ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...