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| | A Brief Foreword to the Book Memoirs : Reflecting on the Past and Future | 3 |
| | Fleeting Moments, Transience, Torment | 7 |
| | A Few Words in Place of a Preface | 13 |
| | Epilogue, or a Letter to Posterity | 389 |
| | Final Resignation, November 2003 | 15 |
| My Homeland. | Skartvelo : Gruzia, Gurjistan, Georgia | 27, 29 |
| | My Family | 38 |
| | My Wife | 44 |
| | Communist Past | 47 |
| | Georgia's Leader | 68 |
| | Supporting Aliyah to the Land of Israel | 72 |
| | Conflict and Attempts to Solve Them | 75 |
| | Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko | 90 |
| | Repentance | 96 |
| | A Path to God | 101 |
| | Construction of the Holy Trinity Cathedral | 102 |
| The New "Moral" Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union. | Unexpected Appointment | 105, 107 |
| | My Associates and Assistants | 113 |
| | Meetings with American Leaders | 115 |
| | Gorbachev-Reagan Talks in Geneva and Reykjavik | 122 |
| | Withdrawal of Troops from Afghanistan | 125 |
| International Arena : Meetings and Decisions | A Surprise Compliment from Richard Nixon | 131, 133 |
| | Visiting Ayatollah Khomeini | 134 |
| | Chernobyl and Spitak | 139 |
| | The Cold War : The Beginning of the End | 143 |
| | Tha Malta Summit and a Disgruntled Gorbachev | 148 |
| | Common Sense Prevails in Wyoming | 150 |
| | Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait | 151 |
| | "Soviet Assault" on Sotheast Asia-Pacific | 154 |
| | Relations with Japan, Philippines, and Korea | 161 |
| | Relations with Chinese Neighbord | 168 |
| | The British Experience | 170 |
| | German Reunification | 174 |
| | South America and Fidel Castro | 188 |
| | The Polish Trio : Walesa, Jaruzelski, Wojtyla | 190 |
| The Soviet Union : Political Turmoil at Home. | Punishing the Georgians : Bloody April 9 | 193, 195 |
| | In Search of the Lost Pact | 202 |
| | Confrontation between Gorbachev and Yeltsin | 204 |
| | First Resignation | 206 |
| | Post resignation | 209 |
| The collapse of the Soviet Union. | One December night in 1991... | 217, 219 |
| Back in Georgia. | One Hundred Days of Solitude | 241, 262 |
| | International Support | 268 |
| | Hans-Dietrich Genscher Shows Solidarity | 270 |
| | Georgian Hotsports | 274 |
| | An American Friens | 279 |
| | Russian Intervention | 283 |
| | The Dagomys Agreement | 286 |
| Russia - Caucasus - Georgia. | The Conquest of the Caucasus | 289, 293 |
| | Russia-Georgia Relations in the 11th-18th Centuries | 300 |
| | 1801-2021 | 309 |
| | First Republic of Georgia | 314 |
| An Undeclared War with Russia. | I was Still in Moscow when, Alongside the Soviet Republics'... | 327 |
| Terrorist Acts and Rerrorism. | First Terrorist Act | 369, 371 |
| | Second Terrorist Act | 373 |
| | Third Terrorist Act | 376 |