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There are situations in which the similarities between historical and criminal work leap out at you: the same excitement at the first suspicion, the impatience during the search for evidence, and the suspense at the “conviction” of those responsible. On October 1, 2001 I experienced such a situation when I met Anatoli Chernayev, Mikhail Gorbachev’s main advisor for relations with the Western countries, in Moscow. It was our second meeting.
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von Plato, A. (2015). Introduction: The Historian as a Detective. In: The End of the Cold War?. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488725_1
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