Jack F. Matlock

Jack F. Matlock Jr. was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 and is the author of Autopsy on an Empire. He is George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. (February 2000)

From the Review

April 13, 2000: 'Ukraine Today' (letter)

February 24, 2000: The Nowhere Nation

Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry by Anatol Lieven

The Ukrainian Resurgence by Bohdan Nahaylo

Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 by Martin Dean

State and Institution Buildingin Ukraine edited by Taras Kuzio, by Robert S. Kravchuk, by Paul D'Anieri

Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations by Paul J. D'Anieri

February 5, 1998: Russia's Leaking Nukes

One Point Safe: A True Story by Andrew Cockburn, by Leslie Cockburn

Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material by Graham T. Allison, by Owen R. Coté Jr., by Richard A. Falkenrath, by Steven E. Miller

The Peacemaker a film directed by Mimi Leder

September 25, 1997: Success Story

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze by Carolyn M. Ekedahl, by Melvin A. Goodman

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

June 26, 1997: Gorbachev & the Coup: An Exchange

March 27, 1997: 'The Gorbachev Factor': An Exchange

December 19, 1996: Gorbachev: Lingering Mysteries

Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev ( the copyright page states, "This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky," implying that the translation was edited substantially.)

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown

September 19, 1996: 'Struggle for the Kremlin': An Exchange

August 8, 1996: The Struggle for the Kremlin

February 29, 1996: The Russian Prospect

February 1, 1996: The Go-Between

In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents by Anatoly Dobrynin

July 13, 1995: Russia: The Power of the Mob

Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya by Stephen Handelman

February 16, 1995: The Chechen Tragedy

Books by Jack F. Matlock

Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)