Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

Perestroika was initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. In 1988, the changes became irreversible after the cardinal reforms of the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union's perestroika - rebuilding - era 30 years ago that ushered in groundbreaking reforms of the Communist system is now seen as specific period in Russian history. Although it lasted less ...

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S death has prompted a torrent of commentary confirming the old adage that “the history we write tells more about the present than the past.” Some pay fitting tribute to the former ...

It's such a joy when an author whose work you've been reading for decades surprises you with something unexpected. The title character of Jane Smiley's new novel, Perestroika in Paris — her first ...

The quietly powerful documentary “My Perestroika” opens with images of uniformed children covering a massive parade ground in Moscow, with one youngster thanking the Soviet leader at the time, Leonid ...

In "My Perestroika," filmmaker Robin Hessman traces the last generation raised in the Soviet Union through the eyes of five Muscovties, from childhoods filled with propaganda to life in the new Russia ...

Transocean Ltd specializes in offshore drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company operates globally, providing technologically advanced and highly efficient drilling services. The shares ...

Set in the eighties during the Reagan presidency, playwright Tony Kushner made theater history with his multiple prize-winning Angels in America, an epic two-part play. Rec Room Arts Artistic Director ...

Jane Smiley earned a Pulitzer Prize for recasting “King Lear” as a modern tragedy on an Iowa farm and a National Book Award nomination for “Some Luck,” the first book in a century-spanning American ...

Perestroika, a ten percent owner of Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG), reported purchasing 4,000,000 registered shares of the company on September 26, 2025, according to a Form 4 filing with the Securities ...

Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about glasnost—meaning “openness,” particularly openness of information—and ...