Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) visiting (soon to be replaced) Yitzhak Shamir at his home in Jerusalem, June 14 1992. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died on August ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, died this week. In the West he was hailed as the man who turned the Soviet Union away from communism and brought ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and ...

Will Communist China go the way of the Soviet Union? The death of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good opportunity to examine the similarities and differences between the system that collapsed under the last ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is established that Party-army relation followed a "separated" pattern in the Soviet Union as opposed to an "infused" pattern in China.

The Jewish Agency’s immigration and absorption department claimed today that it had evidence of at least three instances in which “Communist provocateurs” sought to provoke discontent among recent ...