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With his economy on the brink of collapse, Gorbachev recruited Shevardnadze to help him end the cold war and slash military spending. They would build good relations with Western Europe and the U.S. so the U.S.S.R. could tap the technology and investment funds it so desperately needed.
When Shevardnadze arrived at the Stalin-gothic Foreign Ministry on Smolensky Square, he treated it as a candidate for cleanup. After 28 years under the proprietorship of dour-visaged Andrei Gromyko, the ministry badly needed perestroika and glasnost. Within a year Shevardnadze replaced nine of the 12 deputy ministers, instituted...
European diplomats were delighted to find that grim Grom's avuncular-looking successor was pleasant, modest and easy to deal with, even on tough questions. Shevardnadze described himself as a pragmatist: "The Soviet Union is firmly in favor of a solid and honest dialogue," he said. "We are interested in...
One of his toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system...
Shevardnadze went public with his intentions in a remarkable mea culpa speech to the Supreme Soviet in October 1989. Reversing a policy of decades of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not...