Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Centra… ...

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, Gorbachev tried to revive the moribund communist state by introducing polices of economic and political openness, ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meets with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office on Dec. 9, 1987. The two formed an unlikely partnership to reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in the USSR in 1942 to solicit international Jewish support for the forces ...

A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of Leningrad and Moscow Jewish leaders ...