What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 ...

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 ...

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.

With the death of Communist Party secretary Leonid Brezhnev that year and that of successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko in the years following, some of our family friends gave me the ...