Since 1945, the U.S.-Europe relationship has largely been defined by opposition to the Soviet Union. This was the crux of the Cold War: the free West vs. the Iron Curtain in the East. It was this ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the southern Russian province of Stravropol Krai. Born to peasant ...

Gorbachev said the West insists in describing the fall of the Berlin Wall as a “victory for one of the sides of the Cold War, but I ask, what kind of victory was that?” ...

The Soviet Union lost the Cold War, but it was not defeated by American defense spending. Former Soviet officials insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and ...

America might adopt a mercantilist trade policy and a relatively isolationist foreign policy. This approach goes against the ...

30 as the war continued to rage in Ukraine. In 1990, Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the first nuclear arms reduction treaty and for bringing an end to the Cold War. His “new ...

The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...

The Cold War, far from being the final ideological ... a feature largely continuous between the Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin governments. From the moment the Berlin Wall fell, Moscow refused ...

The series is a history of the Cold War and its aftermath with a focus ... Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev find common ground. Tragedy strikes after a nuclear disaster. 6 - Empire is Untenable ...