My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter Palazchenko Pavel
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter Palazchenko Pavel As the principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard…
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My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter Palazchenko Pavel
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. 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 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.