“Ronald Reagan didn’t whisper to Gorbachev, ‘Give me some flexibility.’ He walked out of Iceland.” What’s interesting here is that Reagan’s decision not to give up on SDI was ...

First of all, I want to thank the government of Iceland for invitation to participate ... In the summer of 1986, I received a letter from President Reagan, which concerned the US-Soviet ...

Liberal Myth No. 1: Reagan’s dangerously belligerent foreign policy had little to do with the disintegration of Soviet Communism. Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader most responsible for bringing ...

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, there is no mention of Ronald Reagan in Willerton’s article. He writes as if Gorbachev emerged and operated in a vacuum. He didn’t. Gorbachev was selected as Soviet leader to ...

The film takes place at the most dangerous point of the Cold War, watching as political enemies Ronald Reagan (Daniels) and Mikhail Gorbachev (Harris) meet in Iceland over one long, tense weekend ...

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 ...

Set during the most dangerous point of the Cold War, "political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland ...