“Though Gorbachev was late in breaking out of the human rights gate, the positive changes he ultimately initiated would have been unthinkable to us in the Soviet human rights advocacy movement a ...

In the summer of 1986, I received a letter from President Reagan, which concerned the US-Soviet negotiations on nuclear disarmament, and the draft reply prepared by our foreign ministry.

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But Gorbachev’s decision to name Shevardnadze ... "This is what guides me when I talk to James Baker [the then US secretary of state], or to Douglas Hurd, or Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

Gorbachev was viewed by many as a naive idealist ... and prompted him to hold nuclear arms reduction talks with the United States. Gorbachev set out on an ambitious quest to persuade the world ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...

“Bush got up and offered his hand across the entire width of the table and shook me by the hand, saying that he did not consider us enemies either.” But Gorbachev had much harsher words for Trum ...

Gorbachev recognised many of the key problems ... In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States. He was a committed anti-communist who referred to the Soviet Union as ...