Angela Stent is a leading expert on Russia and U.S.-Russian relations, serving as a professor of government at Georgetown University and as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has authored several influential books on Russian foreign policy and served in the U.S. government on Russia-related matters. She contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of Russian political figures.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV arrives in Washington this week to promote his new memoirs. They cover his political career before the collapse of the Soviet Union and highlight his contribution to the transformation of communism. He will undoubtedly receive a warmer welcome here than he does in Moscow. Just…