In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest member of the ruling Politburo, was chosen to succeed President Konstantin Chernenko as Communist Party chief, finally bringing to power the post-World War ...

When the Indian prime minister visited the Soviet Union in 1985, he spent some time in smaller Soviet republics.

Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed. Gorbachev was instrumental in the dissolution of the union of nations.

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader. In 2001, more than 400 people were killed in an earthquake in El Salvador. In 2006, a U.N. report accused the ...