play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...

By the time Gorbachev became General Secretary, in March of 1985, he was deeply committed to domestic reform and fundamental changes in Soviet foreign policy. "I, like many others," he observed ...

Gorbachev died on Aug. 30 as the war continued ... In 1986, when he was still general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. That catastrophe also ...

New Data Reveal the Scale of Biden’s Immigration Surge Lee Zeldin’s EPA Rights an Environmental Wrong President Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in the Oval ...

When Xi Jinping rose to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), some called him China’s Mikhail Gorbachev. Many hoped that he would take forward the moderate policies ...