(11) Anatolii Chernaev, Sovmestnyi iskhod: Dnevnik dvukh epokh, 1972-1991 gody (Moscow: Rosspen, 2008), 405;
Georgii Arbatov, "Iz nedavnego proshlogo," in L.
The party was discredited by the failed coup of August 1991 and outlawed shortly thereafter - leaving, as
Georgii Arbatov points out, "a power vacuum and a completely disorganized political process."(30) With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the emerging political system in Russia was characterized by chaos and uncertainty.
aid to the mujahideen.(26) Georgii Arbatov, director of the Institute of U.S.A.
The most prominent members of this group (those who formed the top echelon) included economists and sociologists (Abel Aganbegyan, dean of the Academy of National Economics; Tatyana Zaslavskaya, director of the National Center of Public Opinion; Leonid Abalkin, former deputy prime minister; Stanislav Shatalin, former member of the Presidential Council; Nikolay Petrakov, former economics adviser to the president), foreign policy specialists (Alexander Yakovlev, formerly Gorbachev's closest adviser, former member of the Presidential Council and Politburo; Georgii Arbatov, director of the Institute of U.S.A.
Gorbacheva (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 1994), 248;
Georgii Arbatov, "Iz nedavnego proshlogo," in L.
Georgii Arbatov, The System: An Insider's Life in Soviet Politics (New York: Random House, 1992), p.
In Moscow, something similar could be said of Roy Medvedev and Merab Mamardashvili, as well as a number of lesser-known intellectuals under Nikolai Inozemtsev at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO),
Georgii Arbatov at the Institute of the USA and Canada (ISKAN), and Timur Timofeev at the Institute of the International Working-Class Movement (IMRD).
Gorbachev had arranged for Yakovlev to be brought back from Canada to head the Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Yakovlev drew on specialists there to provide a flow of expert advice directly to the General Secretary.(79) Gorbachev also asked Georgii Arbatov, the director of the Institute of the U.S.A.
Personal interview with Georgii Arbatov, Moscow, 19 May 1989.
Academician Georgii Arbatov, the head of ISKAN, served as the Soviet member, while retired General Mikhail Milstein of the same institute was one of the principal advisers.(43) Common security was introduced into the commission's deliberations by the German Social Democrat Bahr, who had also been one of the architects of German Ostpolitik.
On the various Russian terms, see Georgii Arbatov, Zatianuvsheesia vysdorovlenie (1953-1988 gg.), Svidetel'stvo soveremennika (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 1991), pp.
