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COLD WAR 28/113
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Transcript of interview with aerospace scientist Roald Sagdeev, 1997
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- 1997 Sep 5 (Creation)
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21pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Roald Sagdeev, Director of Vlatch Institute [Soviet Space programme] relating to the change in the Soviet political administration under Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, including the Soviet response to the announcement by US President Ronald Reagan of his Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), 1983; Dagdeev's attitude to Gorbachev's appointment as General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985; and increasing openness in Soviet government. 21pp
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