During Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's summits in the mid-1980s, Reagan speculated that Gorbachev, an avowed atheist, harbored religious beliefs. James Mann lifts the curtain on Reagan's ...

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday, as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old ...

Reagan and Gorbachev Didn’t Tear Down the Berlin Wall Don’t be fooled by the mainstream narrative: The 1989 revolutions weren’t just byproducts of extraordinary historical circumstances.

By Reagan’s final two years in the White House, he “had made his definitive choice in policy” to support Shultz’s view that Gorbachev represented change.

The Reagan letter, a response to one from Gorbachev, is part of an exchange designed to set the agenda for talks between the two men at their next meeting, expected this summer or early in the fall.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last of a trio of world leaders — including U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — who ended the Cold War and reshaped the globe ...

Reagan was more popular than his three immediate predecessors – Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon – and his popularity only grew by the late 1980s, as Gorbachev struggled to reform ...

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

Gorbachev got a laugh when he said he wasn't all that impressed with Reagan's historic challenge to "tear down this wall". But went on to say that he believed Reagan "was a great president." ...

Four days of summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ended Wednesday with only modest progress on arms control and other issues and with Gorbachev blaming the ...

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev laugh in Washington, December 8 1987. Two years after their first meeting, the pair signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in a ceremony at ...

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old, nuclear-armed Cold War.