Inspired by biker culture in the US, they went on to join the resistance movement against the failed anti-Gorbachev coup in 1991. Vladimir Putin's chilling new space weapon that could start WW3 ...

Gorbachev resigned after a failed coup in December 1991 that sought his ouster. He had bested the plotters but the economic uncertainty and the devolution of power created a sense of chaos and ...

I am certain that it was a viable option and that most republics would have supported it, but the coup upset this possibility," Gorbachev said. "Even after the coup, when the republics proclaimed ...

By Aug. 22, the coup had failed and so had the Russian Communist utopia. The political couple of Yeltsin and Gorbachev had freed Russia. The transition days, weeks and months were not easy.

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.