As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. Yegor K. Ligachev. Kremlin watchers ...
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Putin in Dresden: The KGB outpost that watched the Berlin Wall fall
In Dresden, Putin’s KGB posting looked less like espionage and more like bureaucratic busywork—until Gorbachev’s reforms and East Germany’s unraveling changed everything. As the Berlin Wall fell and ...
Mikhail Gorbachev opened the door, and Boris Yeltsin walked out of it. Several other prominent Soviet politicians, including the mayors of Moscow and Leningrad, quickly joined Yeltsin in giving up ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...
In his article “How to Win the New Cold War” (January/February 2025), Niall Ferguson claims that although “it has become fashionable to credit the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold ...
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