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Panelists who worked closely with American and Soviet leadership explained their personal experiences at the end of the Cold War. They talked about the behind-the-scenes interactions between…

Pavel Palazhchenko talked about his new book, My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter, published by Pennsylvania State University Press. Palazhchenko was…

Former diplomats and government officials from the U.S. and the former Soviet Union spoke in a forum on the reasons for the end of the Cold War during a symposium on the Cold War at Princeto…

Scholars, journalists and members of the Bush administration discussed how President Bush handled the abrupt end of the Cold War. This was part of a three-day symposium on the Bush presidenc…

Prior to the panel, Mr. Palazchenko read a letter from former Soviet President Gorbachev regretting that he could not attend the forum. Then U.S. and Soviet participants in the 1986 summit i…

In a conference on U.S.-Soviet Relations and the Reagan Presidency, the participants reminisced about the first meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev…

Mr. Shultz opened this conference on the first meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan in 1985 in Geneva. In his remarks, he spoke about the U.S. agenda for the meeting and it…