Among the books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the cold war from stalin to gorbachev and i also noted among his books zhavagos children and having just watched the movie yet again, i was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremy suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center. As we did recently welcome him back for an American Forum on the latest book the impossible presidency which in light of the incumbent might be called the impossible president but its the impossible presidency about whether anyone now can be a successful president. Jeremy is the mac brown distinguished chair for leadership and Global Affairs at university of texas an hes based in both the department of history and the lynn din Johnson School of public affairs. So im going to turn to vlad first who will speak to us about his essay on brezhnev and the lessons of detente. All right. Should i go there . You may go wherever you are comfortable. Maybe ill say