Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and his daughter Irina cruise past 'Big Tex' at the State Fair of Texas in a golf cart in October 1998. (RHODES, John F. / 121355) ex.co script has ...

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragedy is that he outlived the thaw in the Cold War between Moscow and the US, after doing more than anyone to engineer it. CNN values your feedback 1.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the late and unlamented USSR, has died at 91. Though he was Soviet leader for fewer than six years, they were hugely eventful years, and that period, coupled with ...

U.S. President Ronald Reagan, center, and his wife, Nancy, listen to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev speak at the White House on Dec. 10, 1987. (Reuters/Gary Hershorn) ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragedy is that he outlived the thaw in the Cold War between Moscow and the US, after doing more than anyone to engineer it. CNN values your feedback 1.

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.

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragedy is that he outlived the thaw in the Cold War between Moscow and the US, after doing more than anyone to engineer it. CNN values your feedback 1.