The eighties of the twentieth century became a turning point in the new history and fate of Russia. The author of the book is a direct participant in the events described, in those years Ambassador-at-Large, head of the USSR delegation at 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 find out at the cost of what efforts and confrontations the new policy of the USSR and the USA in the field of international security was formed and what actually happened then, in 1983-1987, behind the Kremlin walls...