Mikhail Gorbachev

George Shultz obituary

Secretary of state to Ronald Reagan who worked with Mikhail Gorbachev to help end the cold war

Ewen MacAskill

07, Feb, 2021 @10:46 PM

Stephen Cohen obituary

US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did

Jonathan Steele

13, Oct, 2020 @4:33 PM

In place of Berlin’s Wall now stands a barrier of sullen resentment | Neal Ascherson

Reunification has only fed resentment and alienation among the ‘losers’ of the old East Germany

Neal Ascherson

10, Nov, 2019 @9:15 AM

Meeting Gorbachev review – Werner Herzog pulls his punches

The great director quizzes the former USSR leader in a grandly presented documentary that fails to address the Putin question

Peter Bradshaw

08, Nov, 2019 @1:00 PM

Clora Bryant obituary

American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who performed with Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie

Peter Vacher

09, Oct, 2019 @2:02 PM

Gorbachev's vision for a 'common European home'- archive, July 1989

Forty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev told his East European allies that each should be free to pursue its own path within the Warsaw Treaty – a declaration that would set the stage for revolutions and the crumbling of the Communist bloc

compiled by Richard Nelsson

10, Jul, 2019 @10:41 AM

The Proustian draw of sexy hawthorn | Brief letters

Brief letters: Scapegoats | Gorbachev | Timpson | Hawthorn | Danny Drinkwater

Letters

15, May, 2019 @4:45 PM

Tributes paid to George HW Bush, the ‘dear Dad’ dedicated to faith, family and country

Former president, who has died at 94, helped end nuclear arms race and bring down Berlin wall, but faced criticism for Gulf war and elitism

Emma Graham-Harrison, and David Smith Washington

01, Dec, 2018 @6:35 PM

SAS spy's memoir claims he 'probably saved Gorbachev's life'

Pilgrim Spy – published under pseudonym Tom Shore – also claims a ‘third generation’ Baader-Meinhof gang came close to halting the fall of the Berlin Wall

Alison Flood

08, Sep, 2018 @5:00 AM

A secret plot to stop Brexit, or an antisemitic dog whistle? | Rafael Behr

The Daily Telegraph’s editors were clearly remiss in failing to spot the implications of their story on George Soros, writes Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Rafael Behr

08, Feb, 2018 @3:08 PM

Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman review – the mysteries remain

A phenomenally researched life of the man who did more than any other to change Europe and the world in the last half of the 20th century