MOSCOW--Hundreds of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the ...

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 after years of economic decline, unrest, and failed control over its republics. This documentary examines how Gorbachev’s reforms, the Warsaw Pact breakaway, and the ...

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A few months after the politburo chose him as Soviet supremo in early 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev halted his cortege in downtown Leningrad for an impromptu walkabout that signalled change was in the air.