Alexander Yakovlev, who advised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on glasnost and perestroika, was buried this week. After the Soviet Union collapsed he devoted himself to documenting Soviet repression.

In his book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, published in English in 2002, Alexander Yakovlev set about exposing the whole Leninist/Stalinist "experiment" as a crime against humanity. As a ...

Aleksandr Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reform of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow on 18 October at the age of 81. Yakovlev, perhaps more than any of his compatriots in the Communist Party ...

Yegor Yakovlev, who has died at the age of 75, was the most prominent voice of glasnost during the years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union. As editor of the weekly Moscow News ...