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COLD WAR 28/117
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Transcript of interview with politician Aleksandr Yakovlev, 1997
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- 1997 Nov (Creation)
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18pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Yakovlev, advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, relating to the political reforms in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's term of office of; including the Malta Summit meeting with US President George Herbert Walker Bush, Dec 1989; independence movements in the Baltic States, 1990; the abolition of the 6th Article of the Soviet constitution allowing the creation of new political parties; popular dissatisfaction with reform in the USSR; and the attempted coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Aug 1991. 18pp
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