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The death of Gorbachev and the end of an era

Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t just lead the USSR—he presided over its collapse. David looks back on a leader who tried to reform ...
Fox News

Gorbachev death leaves America missing Reagan-era leadership

Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...
Miami Herald

Former Soviet leader Gorbachev’s death should remind young people of the horrors of communism

Few men accomplish so much that they leave this world to the echoes of their enemies rejoicing, but if there ever was such a person, surely it was former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died ...
AOL

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War, has died

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorbachev ...
The Sun

Mikhail Gorbachev death updates: Joe Biden leads tributes to ‘remarkable’ Soviet Union leader who ended Cold War

BORIS Johnson and Joe Biden have paid tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped end the Cold War. Former Russian leader Mr Gorbachev tragically died at the age of 91 in his home ...
World Socialist Web Site

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev and the legacy of Stalinist counterrevolution

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former general secretary of the Communist Party (CP) and president of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in a Moscow hospital. He had reportedly been suffering ...
The Washington Post

Why Gorbachev’s death feels like it’s part of an alternate history

Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects at the coffin of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Sept. 1. (TV pool/AP) Alternate history is enjoying a modest revival. The ...
Yahoo

Gorbachev died shocked and bewildered by Ukraine conflict - interpreter

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's ...
Associated Press

Sweeping coverage, exclusives mark Gorbachev’s death

The all-formats team of Lynn Berry, Vladimir Kondrashov, Anatoly Kozlov, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Vladimir Isachenkov, Jim Heintz, Varya Kudryavtseva, Kostya Manenkov, Olga Tregubova, Julia Rubin, ...
Orlando Sentinel

Putin will turn Gorbachev’s death to his advantage | Commentary

Mikhail Gorbachev was a man who hoped for the best, and got the worst. The legacy of the last Soviet leader, who died this week at age 91, was largely undone by two decades of Vladimir Putin. Now a ...
London Evening Standard

My dear friend Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world

The last time I saw Mikhail it was clear his health was declining and the end drawing near. His hair was now totally white and that famous birthmark had retreated to a mere smudge in a face blotched ...