In the days surrounding the funeral of his predecessor, KonstantinChernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev met with countless delegations from aroundthe world. Vice President Bush was the head of our U.S.

1952 - Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 - Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

A Swiss mansion that was the site of the 1985 Geneva Summit that brought together President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is on the auction block, with bids starting at ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl paid their respects to the ordinary people who were behind the peaceful revolution of 1989 that brought down the Berlin Wall at an ...