The moment the West’s image of the Soviet Union began to change can be pinpointed with some exactitude: it was December 1984, when Mikhail Gorbachev, then second-in-command at the Kremlin, arrived in ...

Dave Benett/G80/Getty Arnold Schwarzenegger with Mikhail Gorbachev (right) and his daughter, Irina Virganskaya (left) "There's an old saying, 'Never meet your heroes.' I think that's some of the worst ...

It was billed as “Style Wars” and “Tea and Empathy.” Nancy Reagan, the polished Southern California socialite, and vivacious Raisa Gorbachev, the uniquely style-conscious Soviet First Lady, were ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, visited the Twin Cities on a blustery June day in 1990 at a time when the Berlin Wall had fallen and new hope emerged for better relations between ...