Mikhail Gorbachev, First and Only President of the Soviet Union, Dies at 91. ... leading a three-day coup in 1991 that left Gorbachev effectively under house arrest at his dacha in Crimea.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin chief who brought on the end of the Cold War—and, with it, the collapse of the Soviet Union—died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Mikhail Gorbachev's life was marked by dutiful progress through a brutal world, yet he managed to save a piece of himself and become an iconic figure.

Mikhail Gorbachev, ... arrived at the presidential dacha at Foros. They demanded that Gorbachev sign a decree declaring a state of emergency or resign. Gorbachev refused to do either.

The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons By Mikhail Gorbachev HarperCollins, 127 pages, $18 If, like almost everyone else in the world, you pored over the newspapers and sat glued to the televisi… ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, ... Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the KGB arrived at the door of his dacha, ...

William Taubman, the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Mikhail Gorbachev was a decent man — too decent to be ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War, dies at 91. Mr. Gorbachev, ... he was simply forced into “a retirement of merit” at his dacha. Nevertheless, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet Union’s ... In August 1991 they put him under house arrest in his country dacha in Crimea. He was freed after just three days but, on his return, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow’s worsening ties ...