My years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze

by Don Oberdorfer, Pavel Palazchenko

1997 394 pages eng

As the principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, in the critical period of 1985-1991, Pavel Palazchenko participated in all U.S.-Soviet summit talks leading to the end of the Cold War. This personal and political memoir sheds new light on Sovi…