Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30, 2022, at age 91. Photo by Wojtek Laski / Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." ...