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June 23, 2016 issue
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Jack F. Matlock Jr. is Rubenstein Fellow at Duke. He is the author of Autopsy on an Empire, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, and Superpower Illusions. Between 1987 and 1991 he was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. (June 2016)
Russia: A Big Part in the Big Change
Alexander Yakovlev: The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
by Richard Pipes
June 23, 2016 issue
The Nowhere Nation
Ukrainian independence has not only produced dilemmas of statehood for that country, but also attracted an unprecedented degree of attention from scholars eager to study the transition from communism to something else.
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 and Robert S. Kravchuk and Paul D'Anieri
Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations
by Paul J. D'Anieri
February 24, 2000 issue
Russia’s Leaking Nukes
One Point Safe: A True Story
by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn
Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material
by Graham T. Allison and Owen R. Coté Jr. and Richard A. Falkenrath and Steven E. Miller
The Peacemaker
a film directed by Mimi Leder
February 5, 1998 issue
Success Story
The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze
by Carolyn M. Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter
by Pavel Palazchenko
September 25, 1997 issue
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
December 19, 1996 issue
The Go-Between
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents
by Anatoly Dobrynin
February 1, 1996 issue
Russia: The Power of the Mob
Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya
by Stephen Handelman
July 13, 1995 issue
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