Когда рухнул железный занавес: встречи и воспоминания [Kogda rukhnul zheleznyi zanaves: vstrechi i vospominaniia]

by Eduard Shevardnadze, Эдуард Шеварднадзе

428 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia (or in equivalent posts) from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution.