Edouard shevardnadze biography

Born January 25,
Mamati, Georgia, Soviet Union

Soviet foreign minister and
president of Georgia

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E duard Shevardnadze, foreign minister of the Soviet Union from to , helped reform and transform the internal structure and international relations of his country.

Led by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev (–; see entry), their overall policies were known as glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).

Shevardnadze encouraged cooperation and compromise with the United States.

Edouard shevardnadze biography

He and Gorbachev became the much-heralded architects who brought about the end of the Cold War (–91). The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from to between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in , Shevardnadze returned to his native Georgia to head its government.

Reformist

Eduard Amvros'evich Shevardnadze, the son