Mark Katkov is an editor at NPR. He was the CBS News Moscow Bureau producer during the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years. William Taubman's extraordinary new biography, Gorbachev: His Life and Times, is fly ...

David E. Hoffman is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, and author of “The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal.” Near the end of William Taubman’s ...

Across the rest of the globe, particularly in a still divided Europe, “Gorby,” as the press called him, was a rock star. Here was a Soviet leader who, more than anyone else on either side of the Cold ...