http://www.iran.org/tib/krt/strobe.htm
The American Spectator
April 1998
Strobe Talbott: Russia’s Man in Washington
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
This does give a year that Talbott went to Russia from Oxford but no mention of Clinton.
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833183/posts)
"As Strobe Talbott explains in his book, The Russia Hand, “Before his presidency, Clinton’s (foreign policy) claims extended to no more than an Oxford essay on the possibilities of political reform in the USSR, and an early trip to the country.” "
"That storied trip took place in the summer of 1969 when Clinton and Talbott, Oxford roommates, traveled together to Moscow. It was on that trip that Talbott was recruited by Victor Louis, the KGB’s infamous “talent scout,” leading him to become the Kremlin’s “most trusted friend” in Washington. Then, in the early 1970s, Talbott returned to Moscow as a correspondent for Time Magazine. It was during those years that he became closely allied with an up-and-coming Yeltsin partisan named Anatoly Chubais."
Timmerman is excellent and almost always dialed it.
He called it right with the new Cold War statement.