Few have looked beyond the political necessities of the moment and discerned the necessary interplay between Reagan and Gorbachev that ended the Cold War. Historian Robert Service is one of the few.

Former Soviet officials insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and to end the arms race were made despite the Reagan buildup and SDI. In 1983 Gorbachev ...

Among other things, Santorum invoked the spirit of Reykjavik: In a reference to Reagan’s 1986 summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in which their nuclear treaty talks fell apart ...

About her enemies, from Don Regan, Reagan’s chief of staff, to Raisa Gorbachev, she sits and broods, remembering each slight and insult (Regan unsubtly mocks her running the president’s ...

Between working with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War to working with Democrats to solve the economic woes that faced the United States during the 1980s, Reagan ...

With heavy tariffs and overtures to Russia, Trump embraces a worldview starkly different from that of the conservative icon.

Gorbachev and President Reagan sign key nuclear arms treaties that thaw Cold War tensions. In a series of high-profile summits, Gorbachev and President Reagan establish a good relationship and ...