{"product_id":"my-years-with-gorbachev-and-shevardnadze-the-memoir-of-a-soviet-interpreter-9780271016030","title":"My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister  Eduard Shevardnadze  in the critical period of 19851991  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 Soviet\/American relations and personalities during that time. Palazchenko focuses on what he saw with his own eyes during important negotiating sessions with world leaders such as Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush  Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker  and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He shares his impressions and opinions about these leaders as well as their Soviet counterparts and gives a firsthand account of the phase of preparation leading up to important international events  including the process of hammering out positions on sensitive arms control issues. Palazchenko describes the events themselves  such as the summits in Reykjavik  Malta  and Moscow  adding many fascinating details to previous accounts. Palazchenko contends that the peaceful end of the Cold War was possible not because of some behind-the-scenes dealings  but because of the trust that gradually developed between world leaders. He shows us how this developing trust led to the remarkably peaceful transition from the dangerous pre-1985 confrontation to the new relationships between major powers. This book sheds light on Soviet thinking about Soviet-U.S. relations  the Third World  arms control  German reunification  and the Gulf War. It also provides an insiders view of domestic politics and policy during Gorbachevs last year in power and Soviet developments leading up to the collapse of the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647979675701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271016035","price":154.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271016030.jpg?v=1781700685","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-years-with-gorbachev-and-shevardnadze-the-memoir-of-a-soviet-interpreter-9780271016030","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}