Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Credit - Francois Lochon—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Shortly after Gorbachev became ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev set in motion reforms that would open up the Soviet Union but eventually lead to its collapse and that of the Communist party. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a loyal ...

The Soviet Union's perestroika - rebuilding - era 30 years ago that ushered in groundbreaking reforms of the Communist system is now seen as specific period in Russian history. Although it lasted less ...

In "My Perestroika," filmmaker Robin Hessman traces the last generation raised in the Soviet Union through the eyes of five Muscovties, from childhoods filled with propaganda to life in the new Russia ...

The quietly powerful documentary “My Perestroika” opens with images of uniformed children covering a massive parade ground in Moscow, with one youngster thanking the Soviet leader at the time, Leonid ...

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S death has prompted a torrent of commentary confirming the old adage that “the history we write tells more about the present than the past.” Some pay fitting tribute to the former ...

PERESTROIKA, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency ...

The main character may look like a small green frog and jump from lily pad to lily pad, but the game has a deeper political meaning and took the USSR by storm. Tetris wasn’t the only iconic v ideo ...

On its surface alone, Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena is an intensely compelling slice of noir about moral rot and class warfare in post-Soviet Russia. Deeper down, the movie seethes quietly with the moody ...

"Perestroika," Russian filmmaker Slava Tsukerman's tale of a Soviet emigre returning to his native country in the wake of Gorbachev's political reforms, is an undeniably imaginative but ultimately ...