a couple days later, gorbachev was released. i was still in budapest. my friend who later became the deputy minister of defense in russia, he's still there in russia today, still a friend. he called me and said, you've got to come to russia, sam. you got to call me and come to russia immediately. things are really changing. that was after gorbachev was released. long story short, i got an immediate visa that he arranged. i got on a train and went to frankfort and then flew to russia. it was still the soviet union then. i spent the next five days being introduced to the new leaders. these were the yeltsin people because the coup against gorbachev resulted in a shift in policy. yeltsin was the president of russia, and everybody then was talking russia, not soviet union, russia this and russia that. so things were changing dramatically. one of the most interesting sessions, i sat there with all the leaders of the soviet republics, kazakhstan and the other soviet republics with gorbachev preindividualing, where they were debating the breakup of the soviet u

gorbachev came to power and the generals wanted to persuade him that winning was still possible. but it meant pulling out all the stops before the resistance fighters got american anti aircraft weapons by the national deep in 1905 tens of thousands of peasants and their livestock were killed zam but it was too late if you. were equipped with those american anti aircraft guns view of that they were suddenly able to shoot down on average one so be a plane in one soviet helicopter protests. both use and no soviet pilot wanted to be part of that statistic probably. the result was that from 986 the resistance fighters were also active during the day see soviet air operations only took place at night because the pilots were afraid of being shot down. so the ground troops lost their air support you and the soviet occupation was still. looking for some city to get it. if. afghanistan was a thorn in gorbachev's side it was referred to as the russian vietnam it was a war with big losses and for which the people suffered seduced it also presented a foreign policy problem. it's got a bunch o

that was after gorbachev was released.so long story short, i got an immediate visa, that he arranged. i got on a train and i flew from frankfort to russia. i spent the so the next five days in the soviet union, as it was still the soviet union. i was introduced to the new leaders, boris yeltsin five of them. there's list of the soviet union but yeltsin was the president of russia. everybody was talking russia, not the soviet union. russia this and russia that. things were changing dramatically. one of the most interesting sessions was i sat there with all the leaders of the soviet republic. with gorbachev presiding. they were debating the breakup of the soviet union. i concluded during that five-day visit this empire was coming apart and it was the only time in history when it empire come apart without any kind of war at all. there was no military victory as such but the economic system and collapsed. the wouldn't work anymore. so they were coming apart, but the thing that was so dangerous was that they were possessing 30,

you got the chernobyl incident early in the gorbachev years. the soviet union is swirling the drain, and both sides are able to see that they have a vested interest in doing something together to reduce at least nuclear weapons. here reagan's idealism comes back. maybe we could get rid of them all, and gorbachev and reagan are sitting at the table and and the advisers are thinking, good god, no, that's a terrible idea. besides that, reagan won't give up the one thing that is his great idea, which is the famous strategic defense initiative, or star wars, as it was mocking. this was a technological idea, the theory he could shoot down missiles and create a bubble around the united states, and gorbachev said you have to get rid of that or we can't negotiate, so the negotiations come to naught. in 1987 you have the first big breakthrough, which is the international forces agreement -- i just want to remind folks, this was a huge deal. the idea that you could have a human personal connection with a soviet secretary in mikhail gorbachev, came to the

gorbachev was the innovator, he was the risk taker. he took all the risks in the world, leading to the collie complete collapse of his country. but it was he reached out to reagan because he needed something, which was an easing of the cold war so he could reform socialism in the soviet union. so gorbachev and reagan made the proverbial -- but what was interesting that they read each other in a moment of history or soviet weaknesses were really the key thing that both sides understood. soviet economy was falling apart, you get the chernobyl incident early in the gorbachev years. the soviet union is swirling the drain and both sides are able to see they have a vested interest in doing something together to lease reduced nuclear weapons. reagan's idea was maybe we can get rid of them all. reagan and gorbachev are sitting at the table and reykjavik, and we can say maybe we can get rid of them, all in the advisers and thinking oh that's a terrible idea. besides that, reagan won't give up the one thing that is his great idea, which is the f

gorbachev came in and it was gorbachev who was the radical. he was the innovator, he was the risk taker. he took all the risks in the world, leading to the complete collapse of his country and his own destruction, politically speaking. but it was he he reached out to reagan because he needed something which was an easing of the cold war so he could reform socialism in the soviet union. gorbachev and reagan made the proverbial art couple. but they read each other in a moment of history where soviet weaknesses were really the key thing that both guys understood. the soviet economy was falling apart. the soviets had intervened and afghanistan in that was a 1979. fiasco. you have the chernobyl incident in the early gorbachev years. the soviet union is swirling the drain. both sides are able to see that they have a vested interest to do something in order to reduce nuclear weapons. here reagan's idealism come back. maybe we can get rid of them all. gorbachev and reagan are sitting at the table and reagan says get rid of them all. the advisers are t

gorbachev came to power and the generals wanted to persuade him that winning was still possible. it meant pulling out all the stops before the resistance fighters got american anti aircraft weapons. cache deep in 1905 tens of thousands of peasants and their livestock were killed. but it was too late for the opposition. were equipped with those american anti aircraft guns view of that they were suddenly able to shoot down on average one so be a plane in one soviet helicopter predate the thieves and no soviet pilot wanted to be part of that statistic but. the result was that from 1986 the resistance fighters were also active during the day see soviet air operations only took place at night because the pilots were afraid of being shot down. so the ground troops lost their air support you and the soviet occupation was doing. looking for city to. defeat. afghanistan was a thorn in gorbachev's side it was referred to as the russian vietnam it was a war with big losses and for which the people suffered. it also presented a foreign policy problem. if got a bunch of couldn't find a soluti

you have the chernobyl incident in the early gorbachev years. the soviet union is swirling the drain. both sides are able to see that they have a vested interest to do something in order to reduce nuclear weapons. gorbachev and reagan are sitting at the table and reagan says get rid of them all. the advisers are thinking that is a terrible idea. besides that, reagan won't give up his great idea which is the strategic defense initiative or star wars as it was mockingly called. but this was a technological idea. it could in theory shoot down missiles and create a bubble around the united states. gorbachev says you have to get rid of that or we can't negotiate. so the negotiations come to not. n 1987, you have the first great big breakthrough. i want to remind people that this was a huge deal. the idea that you can have acumen, personal connection with the soviet general secretary -- he came to the u.s. and seemed like a young, intelligent european, that you could go rip open the heart of the cold war and say let's get rid of a whole class of nucle

gorbachev came to power and the generals wanted to persuade him that winning was still possible. it meant pulling out all the stops before the resistance fighters got american anti aircraft weapons i. wish the d. said in 1905 tens of thousands of peasants and their livestock were killed zam but it was too late if you. were equipped with those american anti aircraft guns. they were suddenly able to shoot down on average one so be a plane in one soviet helicopter pre-date both use and no soviet pilot wanted to be part of that statistic but. the result was that from 1986 the resistance fighters were also active during the day see soviet air operations only took place at night because the pilots were afraid of being shot down. so the ground troops lost their air support you and the soviet occupation was doing. looking for some civility could. have been. deficient in afghanistan was a thorn in gorbachev's side it was referred to as the russian vietnam it was a war with big losses and for which the people suffered. it also presented a foreign policy problem. if god but chose couldn't f

. >> reagan had his team on his side of the table, and gorbachev on the other side.cy knew that that wasn't enough. she knew that ronnie was going to be best one-on-one along with gorbachev as much as she could get him. so she said, honey, what you really ought to do is take gorbachev for a walk. >> president reagan proposed the two leaders walk from the 18th century villa they were meeting in to a pool house on the edge of the lake. >> reagan and gorbachev decided they didn't even need to go into the group meeting because they had made so much headway alone. >> geneva was an incredible breakthrough. on the policy, but also on the personal relationship. you could tell there was a chemistry between the two of them that began that day. >> everything happens the way nancy reagan had planned it. it was a great summit, and she had her fingerprints all over it. >> the bond forged in geneva will lead to a treaty banning two entire classes of nuclear weapons and effectively ends the cold war. just the legacy nancy was after. but this diplomatic triumph is about to be eclipse

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just a brief comment on the question on gorbachev, because actually, gorbachev himself said in 2014, i believe, that there is an old pledge from nato member states, americans and british. i think there is nothing to discuss here actually. and as far as i remember, what the germans, americans, and british the germans, americans, british and french did agree back in 1990 was that there would be no deployment of non-nato forces on the territory of the common gdr. so that was like informal agreement or something like that. but there was not a pledge. i think it's important to comment on that, because i knowi that this narrative is very popular.acting, >> i see that ambassador alexander is reacting on our chat, saying that gorbachev himself denies that. >> yeah, yeah, that's what i said. it was in 2014. i think he was interviewed by german media, i don't remember, someone in the western media. he said there was no such a pledge. and on russia, our position is clear. russia should not have rights on our ability to allow integration to nato. and some -- there are some do concerns inn' some

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union.ut reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should mention madison used it as freedom of the press to publish things. it is not what we refer to as institutionally the press. >> watch american history tv on c-span3 every weekend. lectures in history are also available on a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. >>> each week, american history tv's american artifacts features museums and historic places. up next we visit 97 orchard street in new york city to learn how immigrants cope with poverty and crowdedness in the 19

kennan wrote, gorbachev is a remarkableman. what he set out to do as he saw it was to liberate society from the ill effects of terrorism on the one hand and the corrupting system of privilege on the other by which the aging tried to hold together for so many years. but these had bitten deeply into the fabric of soviet society and fused there with certain of the great distortions brought into the life of the russian empire by the communist revolution of 1917. it is this that gorbachev is running up against, whether he realizes it or not. as he sets out to correct what he sees as the evils of stalinism in russian life. he probably thinks this is all he has to correct. but he may find before he's finished that in some respects he has to correct the mistakes and the blind spots of the bolshev bolshev bolshev bolshevik seizures of power. russia has no lack of past follies. they cry out for correction and will require correction if gorbachev is to make out of russian society what he would like to make out of it. in the 1990s, of cour

now, here's kennan, august 5th, 1987, talking about my gorbachev, the leader of the soviet union, andkennan wrote, gorbachev is a remarkable man, so remarkable as to be almost inexplicable in terms of his own known professional background. when he set out to do as he saw it, was no doubt deliberate soviet society and a soviet economy from the ill effects of the ongoing traces of stalinist terrorism on the one hand and the corrupting system of privilege on the other by which the ageing brezhnev and his cronies contrive to hold things together for so many years. but these ables have bitten deeply into the fabric of soviet society and have mingled and partially fused there certain of the great distortions brought into the life of the russian empire, but the communist revolution of 1970. it is this in essence, that gorbachev is running up against, whether he realizes it or not, as he sets out to correct what he sees as the enduring evils of stalinism in russian life. he probably thinks this is all he has to correct but he may find before he is finished that in some respects, he has to cor

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union. but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should just mention madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not freedom for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> american history on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> the food and drug administration meets in open session to approve a vaccine for covid-19. at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 on thursday. or listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >>> in the summer of 1839, a foreign schooner accidentally sailed along the shores of the united states and transformed the federal courts into a forum for an explosive national debate. the drama that began when the enslaved african-americans invested and took place in cuba would culminate in the supreme court of the uni

gorbachev was in a tenuous position . he was vulnerable to being overwhelmingly conservative apparatchiks if they thought to you was too much of a reformer. to this day gorbachev says he insisted on openness about the accident from the outset but to begin with, lacked adequate information to remain with the public. even if this is true, and this isn't taken, did not reflect any wish to come clean about what hadhappened that share noble . the soviet authorities continue to deny any knowledge of an accident until late last night and to do nothing to stop the spread of radiation and by then, almost all knew something terrible had happened. the invisible plume of radiation that began rising from the rooms in the early hours of saturday morning took slowly off and left across continental europe. by sunday had arrived in denmark where it's presence was logged by an automatic monitoring section . butbecause it was the weekend , they went unnoticed. that afternoon any increase in radiation was reported at sigmund but most other a

yet gorbachev was in a content contentious position, vulnerable to being unseated by the overwhelmingly conservative apparatchiks . they thought it was too much of a reformer. to this day gorbachev says he had openness about the accident from the outset but lacked adequate information to release to the public. even if this is true the decision taken by the politburo that morning did not come clean about what had happened in charitable so the authorities continued to deny any knowledge of an accident but they could do nothing to stop the spread of radiation and by then, most already knew something terrible had happened. the invisible plume of radiation which had begun rising from the ruins of reactor number four in the early hours of saturday morning crept slowly north and west across continental europe. by midday on sunday, it had arrived in denmark where it's presence was logged by an automatic monitoring section butbecause it was weekend , the readings went unnoticed. that afternoon any increase in background radiation was reported in finland. at night, the moisture began to scavenge

am particularly fascinated by what your thought would be about ronald reagan's understanding that gorbachevad a grim council behind him and the fabulous things that happened in the end of the cold war. >> yeah, this -- i think it is a common pattern that leaders look for potential moderates. this was what happened in the 1930s over appeasement. some forces in nazi germany that we can kind of have dialogue with and so on. in the case of 1980s, what is striking is that ronald reagan, margaret thatcher and helmut kohl in germany all decide that they are going to take a punt on me kale gorbachev. and part of the effort to end the cold war quickly, particularly over german unification, is because of the feeling that gorbachev is closing down and, you know, this window of opportunity could soon close. that's certainly how kohl sees the need for rapid german unification, even though the costs are massive for germany. i mean, germany is still paying the economic costs and social costs of that shock, the marriage between east and west. but i think this is a kind of -- for most leaders, when they are

. >> gorbachev did most of the work, but reagan met him halfway. reagan encouraged him.gan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should mention madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press. it is indeed freedom to print and publish things. it's not the freedom for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> to mark the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims' arrival in plymouth, massachusetts, american history tv features several programs, looking back to the year 1620. we'll talk to robert stone, director of the virtual mayflower project, which uses virtual reality to re-create the ship and the plymouth england harbor from which it sets sail. here is a look. >>> in 1620, the mayflower traveled from plymouth, england, to america and the pilgrims settled the plymouth colony on the coast of massachusetts. we talked to robert stone about the virt

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union.eagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the mess, madispr the freedom to print things and publish things. it's not a freedom from what we refer to as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> david reynolds, co-editor of the "the kremlin letters" explains how they used the explanation to build relationships with one another and advance wartime goals without extensive bureaucratic interference. the national world war ii museum hosted this event in january 2020. >> it's my privilege to introduce the speaker dr. david reynolds, one of the united kingdom's most distinguished scholars and writers, but that's probably selling him short. i think he's a man of global stature. a professor of international history and a fellow of christ college cambridge. he studied at cambridge and harvard univsi

gorbachev came to power and the generals wanted to persuade him that winning was still possible. it meant pulling out all the stops before the resistance fighters got american anti aircraft weapons. cache deep in 1905 tens of thousands of peasants and their livestock were killed zam but it was too late if you. were equipped with those american anti aircraft guns view they were suddenly able to shoot down on average one so be a plane in one soviet helicopter predate the thieves and no soviet pilot wanted to be part of that statistic but. he can you can see the result was that from 986 the resistance fighters were also active during the day see soviet air operations only took place at night because the pilots were afraid of being shot down. so the ground troops lost their air support you and the soviet occupation was doing. looking for some civility could. have been. defeated in afghanistan was a thorn in side it was referred to as the russian vietnam it was a war with big losses and for which the people suffered. it also presented a foreign policy problem. if god but chose couldn'

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why did he think gorbachev was an idiot? one important reason is gorbachev attempted to reform the soviet economy by taking his hands off the lever that control the soviet economy and by doing so ultimately lost control and failed to execute his objectives. china's leaders have taken a different approach. china's leaders kept their hands on the levers the control the economy, the banks, the oil firms, the telecom firms, many large industrial firms remain state owned and that gives china's leaders are powerful lever they can use to execute developed objectives, and management of the economic cycle. on development objectives china's leaders can direct state banks, state firms to acquire technologies and put those technologies to work at enormous scale in the chinese economy bringing china closer to the productivity frontier. on management of the economic cycle china's leaders can direct the state sector to hold onto their workers and invest when private firms, that is a powerful tool that avoiding or cushioning, the state sect

and a counterpart article written by gorbachev who strike this same theme about the threat of the war and the madness of nuclear deterrence. been kind of a classic. so we hope this will be a benefit to students, and of interest to, to the casual reader as well. my bottom line is that despite the manhattan project it was a great work of human collaboration. making the park was really so many people got involved. it, you know, would not have happened without all three communities doing their darndest to make it happen. there is still needs to increase public access and work on restoring the facilities. obviously, the decision to drop the bomb is still controversial and always will be. it is a complex story. it is a complex legacy. so, it's a story that will need to be told and retold and revisited for generations to come revisited for generations to. next slide. and we could not have done it, i think i made this point several times without our bipartisan, bicameral supporting congress. and we are really grateful to congressmen, the senators and the congressmen who went to bat and it was

impact of the coronavirus, watch processors transfer teaching to engage with their students. >> gorbachevost of the work to change the soviet union, but reagan met him half way. reagan encouraged him. reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, madison called it freedom of the use of the press and it is indeed, freedom to print things and publish things and it is not a freedom for what we refer to as institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> american history tv on c-span3. exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. this weekend, friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, we visit the smithsonian-american art musz yum to see the alexander van humboldt and the exhibit on art, nature and culture. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, university of north carolina happenel hill professor kathleen duval on the end of the american revoluti

my father thinks that gorbachev is an idiot. one important reason is they attempted to reform by taking his hands off the leaders which controls the soviet economy and by doing so ultimately lost control to execute on his objectives. the leaders have taken a different approach. they've kept their hands on the levers that the commanding heights of the bank, the telecom, any large industrial firms remain state owned and that gives a leve letter that ty can use to execute and management of the cycle. one the leaders can direct at enormous scale in the economy. bringing them closer towards the frontier. they can hold onto their workers and invest where to become more cautious and that is a powerful tool than avoiding or cautioning the recessions. by focusing only on those negatives we missed a crucial role as a driver of development and a powerful tool that can be used to manage the economic cycle. the last area i think our focus in terms of thinking about china focuses on the negatives and misses some of the positives is on the med

. >> gorbachev did most of the work, but reagan met him halfway. reagan encouraged him.dom of the press, which we will get to later, i should mention madison, originally called it freedom of the use of the press. freedom to print and publish things. it is not freedom of what we institutionally refer to as freedom of the press. >> american history tv on c-span three, every saturday at 8 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available at -- as a podcast find it wherever you listen to podcasts. tonight on lectures in history, university of texas at arlington teachesr stephanie cole a class on the life and work of antebellum social reformer lucretia mott. here is a preview. >> she was chosen as one of the seven delegates to the world antislavery convention in 1840. she arrived in london along with her husband, james, to discover that this convention, despite vigorous protest by the americans, decided not to seat women. so it is a convention in which all the people trying to organize to figure out how to europee people around and the americas to oppose slavery, to politic

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union. but reagan, met him halfway. reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> the press, which we will get to later, i should mention -- freedom of the use of the press and it isn't the freedom to print things and publish things. it is not a freedom -- referred to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history, on american history tv, on c-span 3. every saturday, at 8 pm eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> from canada, the wild mallets come in autumn. green heads pointing south. thousand miles of mississippi valley below them. quite a view from america. more limited, but still a pleasant view, america from a school room window in nebraska. the view of a country, any country -- . i'm joseph wells. i am a lawyer. a flight of birds, some americans in trouble, and a white temple on the hill. this is the story i want to tell you. it is the story of the supreme court of the united states. you feel very small when you stand in the entrance of the sup

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union. reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should just mention madison originally called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish things. it is not freedom for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> american history on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> the food and drug administration meets in open session to approve a vaccine for covid-19. at 9:00 a.m. eastern on

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him, reagan supported him. >> freedom of the press, which we'll get to later, i should just mention, madison called it freedom of the use of the press, and it is indeed freedom to print things and publish them, it is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally with the press. >> lectures and history on american history tv on c-span3, every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lecture and history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. american history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. this weekend, friday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, we visit the smithsonian american art museum to see the alexander von humboldt on arts, nature and culture, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures and history, university of north carolina at chapel hill professor kathleen duval on the end of the american revolution and the 1783 treaty of paris, and sunday, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency

this summit is in many ways a great boost to mr gorbachev no matter what it was a time of huge historical upheaval. it's also where he met his wife and fellow journalist luis he's a lot older than me and he was the best journalist in moscow and he helped me on a lot of stories introduced me to a lot of people it was very exciting because he opened a whole new worlds for me. helping me understand so. that was sort of how we fell in love. the 1st time. that's right looking very. worried about how you. look are tiny. ok you. after a life abroad the couple settled near washington d.c. where they wrote books together. but everything changed when just go suffered a massive heart attack and brain hemorrhage i was working i was i was doing a remote job as an editor i finally had to get that. and the thing about caregiving is it happens very slowly he lost abilities very slowly so i don't think i quite realized how much i was doing for him my son came and took care of him for a few days and he just mom dad should have been you sister living months ago you can't do this and. i was by that point i w

when gorbachev came to power in the soviet union, and glasnost and perestroika came to bulgaria, i wase to apply for a scholarship in the west. and in six months i learned english enough to pass, to win a british council scholarship to go to the london school of economics. that was incredible, to be on the other side of the iron curtain. and what i found out over there, having access to information, was that my country was broke. my country was so much deep in debt that i couldn't imagine how it was going to survive. sure enough, two years later, bulgaria, the economy collapsed, and bulgaria turned the page away from socialism to market economy. david: how did you wind up in the fiji islands? kristalina: now that is a story. [laughter] so, when i was at the london school of economics, a professor noticed me as somebody who is quite professional. he then became the dean of economics in the university of south pacific in fiji. in tuva, sitting there, wondering how he can find highly qualified professors that are willing to work for very little money. so, brilliant idea. wrote to this bul

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouragedom to print things and publish things. it's not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3. every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >>> american history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. this weekend, friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, we visit the smithsonian american art museum to see the united states exhibit on art, nature and culture. saturday, university of north carolina chapel hill professor on the end of the american revolution and the 1783 treaty of paris. and sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "the presidency," national portrait gallery senior historian on the gallery's new exhibit, every eye is upon me. first ladies of the the united states. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> boston red sox his

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where the students had begun a hunger strike eclipsing the historic visit by soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. the leadership of the chinese communist party was torn between partisans of the strong arm and those who favored negotiation. the decision fell to the aged leader danger shelving he declared martial law and mobilized the army. the reformist leader of the party recognize the danger was near he went to the square to plead with the students orders and despite the tears of the general secretary of the party the hardliners won the square was to be emptied and violently. you show both saw that danger was imminent and with 3 others started a hunger strike to demands nonviolence both from the students and also from the army which was already stationed around the city. to them but the whole generation really wanted to show that we were turning our backs on the communist party through the marxist leninist parties in power and especially the chinese communist party and proclaiming that power grows out of the barrel of a gun and that they backed violent struggle because nonviolence was for us a

. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union. but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him. reagan supported him. >> the thing about the press, which we will get to him later, -- called it freedom of the use of the press. and it is the freedom to print things and publish things. it is not a freedom forward, that we refer to institutionalize the press. >> lectures in history, and american history tv on c-span 3. every saturday, at 8 pm eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> this is a story of american constitutional law. in part, it has to do with the motion picture, made in italy during -- alberta wrestling. a film that brought harsh controversy to new york.

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