The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

on 26 december, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, wh ...

THE END OF THE COLD WAR 1985– ...

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Maps xiii Preface xix INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE RONALD REAGAN 13 PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 24 THE RE ...

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List of Illustrations Ronald Reagan at his inauguration in January 1981 (By courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library) Secretary of ...

Sergei Akhromeev’s poster (January 1986) offering his plan for the stage-by- stage global elimination of all nuclear weapons (K ...

Maps NATO and the Warsaw Pact in 1985 xiv The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1985 xvi ...

xiv MAPS USSR NATO Countries: 4 April 1949 Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Po ...

MAPS xv USSR NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT IN 1985 Ocean O ce an So ut h A tl an ti c O ce an Ind ian Ocea n Pa ci fic O ce an Arctic ...

xvi MAPS Ankara Istanbul Sofia Tiranë Athens Rome Belgrade Bucharest Kiev Chernobyl Minsk Vilnius Riga Tallinn Helsinki Leningra ...

MAPS xvii THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE 1985 Baku Ashkhabad Sverdlovsk Moscow Sukhum Tbilisi Yerevan IRAN IRAN Don Volga U ...

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Preface The end of the Cold War can now be explored in countless American personal papers, printed collections and online source ...