Character: Tatyana Parkhalina

The eighties of the twentieth century became a turning point in the modern history and fate of Russia. The author of the book is a direct participant in the events described, in those years the Ambassador-at-Large, the head of the USSR delegation to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe, talks about how the foreign policy of the Soviet Union changed during the transition period from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and what changes began in the Foreign Ministry with the arrival of the new minister E. Shevardnadze. You will learn at the cost of what efforts and confrontations the new policy of the USSR and the United States in the field of international security was formed and what actually happened then, in 1983-1987, behind the Kremlin walls ...