Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

A guest essayist said students shouldn’t get an A for simply putting in hard work. We asked teenagers what they thought. By The Learning Network What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance ...

At the beginning of 1990, with the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev to the presidency of the USSR, the Cold War was coming to an end. The Sandinistas of Nicaragua had been pressured by the US to ...

On January 20, 1990, the Soviet army marched into Baku to crush the Azerbaijani Popular Front. It was a bloody invasion: almost 150 civilians died and more than 800 were wounded.