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.

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 stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 — a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Gorbachev died this week, but much commentary gives Ronald Reagan scant credit for engineering the fall of the Soviet Union.

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.

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

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.

It was a miracle to see Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, signing a peace treaty with President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. in 1987.

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 ...

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