play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s ‘Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog’ President Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on ... In 1986, when he was still general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. That catastrophe also ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet ... He proclaimed a new course almost immediately after his appointment as Secretary General of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... 1985 that he would be different from his predecessors as secretary general of the Communist Party. He was younger, more vibrant ...

It is with a great sense of pain that we can say that it was after this massacre that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on Tuesday on former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ... "This is Gorbachev’s point of view, I am not his press secretary," Peskov told ...