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. By Peter Baker For his ...

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.

On that day, Reagan stood 100 yards away from the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin, challenging the Russian-born Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down ...

Former President Ronald Reagan's 1987 speech urging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall has resurfaced following the death of Gorbachev.

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, right, talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during arrival ceremonies at the White House where the superpowers begin three-day talks in 1987. Boris Yurchenko AP It ...

On a November day in 1985, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to sum up his first summit with then-President Ronald Reagan in Geneva. Both men had been cautious during the talks to tamp ...

Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990, a bit of unaccustomed showmanship. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (C) and US president Ronald ...

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 Photo: jerome delay/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev , who died Tuesday at age 91, was a paradoxical Soviet ...

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