Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at the age 91 on Tuesday, will likely be cast as a forgotten figure of another century by those who are penning encomiums to the former Soviet premier. But he has ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91.

Mikhail Gorbachev, first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died. ... 4-year old Mikhail Gorbatchev, here as a child in Privolnoe in Ukraine, circa. 1935. Apic—Getty Images.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, ... He felt he belonged to a generation of children of World War II. He was born in 1931 in Privolnoye, a village in southern Russia.

Jill Dougherty, who covered Raisa Gorbacheva’s funeral in 1999, writes how Raisa’s marriage to husband Mikhail Gorbachev (which began in 1953, the same year Stalin died) was a transformative ...

Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984, the year before he became the leader of the Soviet Union. (Nils Jorgensen/REX/AP) ... “Our generation is the generation of wartime children,” he said.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev had a profound effect on his time: In little more than six tumultuous years, ... “In some villages, all the children between the ages of 1 and 2 died. ...

The first and last President of the U.S.S.R. was, as he once put it, both a “product” and an “anti-product” of the Soviet system.

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a central role in ending the Cold War, died Tuesday at the age of 91. ... He felt he belonged to a generation of children of World War II.