Volume 44, Number 14 · September 25, 1997

Success Story

By Jack F. Matlock
The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze
by Carolyn M. Ekedahl, by Melvin A. Goodman

Penn State Press, 331 pp., $29.95

My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter
by Pavel Palazchenko

Penn State Press, 382 pp., $35.00

On March 8, 1990, as I was leaving Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's office following a private meeting, he shocked me when he said, 'Jack, I'll tell you one thing. If I see a dictatorship coming, I'm going to resign. I'll not be part of a government with blood on its hands.'



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