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Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. The Soviet Union ended twenty years ago, in December 1991. On November 10-11 of this year, the Gorbachev Foundation, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika ...

The Cold War warriors will remember "glasnost" -- the term coined by the USSR's last head of state, Mikhail Gorbachev, that stands for transparency and openness -- as signaling a gradual end to the ...

Gorbachev juggles the fears of Soviet liberal writers and the literary establishment, as he welcomes wider press freedom Leading Soviet poets, writers and journalists who had been invited to the party ...

We live in a world where most of us take the transistor for granted. Within arm’s length of most people reading this, there are likely over ten billion of them sending electrons in every direction.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Ms Kathleen Heck. Sir, David Gardner needs a better dictionary (“Pope Francis is bringing glasnost to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about ...