(Archived document, may contain errors) 234 Decepber 17, 1982 UNMASKING MOSCOW'S INSTITUT E OF THE lJS.AmRR INTRODUCTION In the months following the death of Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev, the United States and the West will be searching for clues that reveal the thinking of the Kremlin's new leadership A key source of such Ifinsi&fitslt into S oviet attitudes surely will be Georgiy Arkadyevich Arbatov who heads a Communist Party-run organization in Moscow called The Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada.
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Despite his efforts to bring a peaceful end to the Cold War and restructure the Soviet Union on more liberal terms, his own people disdained him, holding him responsible for the collapse of the USSR.