Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners, in August 1991. Mr Gorbachev was placed under house arrest at his holiday home in the Crimea. In a televised ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the ... His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought ... In 1991, after a shambolically organised coup by communist hardliners failed, Mr Gorbachev agreed to dissolve the Soviet Union and ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... Gorbachev resigned after a failed coup in December 1991 that sought his ouster. He had bested the plotters but the economic ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.