President Ronald Reagan, left, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow's Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background in May of 1988.

President Ronald Reagan and his successor, Vice President George Bush, with the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Governors Island in December 1988.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last of a trio of world leaders — including U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — who ended the Cold War and reshaped the globe ...

Former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Moscow, Russia, on Sept. 16, 1990. (Wojtek Laski/Getty Images) With strength came support.

Mikhail Gorbachev, from Reagan summit to Soviet collapse, in photos. By Brian Murphy | Aug 30, 2022. On a November day in 1985, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to sum up his first ...

It was a miracle to see Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, signing a peace treaty with President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. in 1987.

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, was a paradoxical Soviet leader when the world needed one. He had almost total power upon taking office but undertook reforms that undermined that power.

Reagan famously invoked Gorbachev's name in his speech in 1987 at the Berlin Wall, when he demanded that the Soviet leader tear down the wall that divided the city between east and west and became ...

President Ronald Reagan, left, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talk during a meeting outside the villa Fleur d'Eau at Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 19, 1985. Bob Daugherty/AP hide ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who brought down the Iron Curtain, died at the age 91 following a long illness Tuesday, according to Russian state and independent media.

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong.