20 Years On: Perspectives on the Fall of the Soviet Union

This is a transcript of an event held on 3 November 2011 at Chatham House.

Sir Rodric Braithwaite and Jack Matlock, the UK and United States ambassadors to Moscow at the time when Mikhail Gorbachev declared the break up of the Soviet Union, reflected on the events that led to that moment and the path that Russia has taken over the past two decades.

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