Jack Matlock is an American professor and former ambassador. He is the former George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council staff from 1983 to 1986, and served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
Matlock is the author of numerous articles and books on Russian literature and history and United States-Russian relations, including “Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union” (1995). His latest book is “Reagan and Gorbatchev: How the Cold War Ended”.
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