The author is a writer and a senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research The Soviet Union was tottering. Mikhail Gorbachev sought to overcome the crisis by pursuing perestroika ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...

Gennady Yanayev, 73, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, died Sept. 24 in Moscow. No cause of death was reported. In one of ...