Program Segments

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  2:14 PM EST

  George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Yeltsin

  A look at the relationships between Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and how they influenced the new Russia after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. The University of Virginia’s Miller Center convened scholars for a conference looking at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussions included assessments of Franklin D. Roosevelt, JFK, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan-- as well as their Russian counterparts.

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  7:59 PM EST

  John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev

  The University of Virginia’s Miller Center convened scholars for a two-day conference looking at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussions included assessments of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- as well as their Russian counterparts. The focus of this session is the relationship between John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the early 1960s.

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  7:59 PM EST

  Nixon and Brezhnev

  This program focused on what motivated President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev during the period known as Détente. It was part of a conference convened by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center to look at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussions included assessments of Franklin D. Roosevelt, JFK, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- as well as their Russian counterparts.

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  1:19 PM EDT

  Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Gorbachev

  Philip Zelikow (National Security Adviser to President George H.W. Bush) James Graham Wilson (Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State), William Taubman (Author Gorbachev: His Life and Times), and Robert Zoellick (Under Secretary of State for George H.W. Bush, Member of Reagan White House) discuss the relationships between Reagan and Gorbachev as well as the relationship between George H.W. Bush and Gorbachev. They debate how these three leaders brought about the end of the Cold War, built the structure of Modern Day Russia, and establ…

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  7:59 PM EST

  U.S. and Soviet Union Relations Post-World War II

  The University of Virginia’s Miller Center convened scholars for a two-day conference looking at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussions included assessments of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as their Russian counterparts. The focus of this program is the post-World War II relationship.