Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1985-1991

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Pankin was Foreign Minister in the last days of the Soviet Union. This extraordinary memoir provides important new information and fresh insights into the Soviet political and diplomatic activities from August to November 1991.

On 26 December 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War …