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Strobe Lite.('The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy')
The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy, by Strobe Talbott (Random House, 480 pp., $29.95)
The ending of the Cold War was one of history's great surprises. Involuntarily, as though in some sort of trance, the Soviet Union worked itself out of existence. Nothing of the kind could have happened without the ambitions of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Their rivalry was all-consuming and epic, and in the course of it they reinvented themselves, their country, and its beliefs. The United States had only to sigh with relief and applaud from the grandstand its own famous victory.
What to make of that victory was the most important ...
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