Hundreds line up to say farewell to Gorbachev; Putin absent

MOSCOW--Hundreds of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic ...

Quote of the Day by Mikhail Gorbachev: A society should never become like a pond with stagnant...—Inspiring quotes by one of the most influential political figures wh…

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, warned that societies must keep moving forward. He believed stagnation was the ...
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Is Trump's America at the start of a Soviet-style downfall?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America's transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the last years of the ...
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Why Soviet Economic Reform Couldn’t Save the System

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...