The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
xx THE END OF THE COLD WAR of deliberations and decisions in Soviet foreign policy; it is a pleasure to bring them to attention ...
PREFACE xxi has been helpful in looking out for books and articles in the Russian Library. My thanks go to George Shultz for tal ...
xxii THE END OF THE COLD WAR I have incorporated advice from colleagues who kindly agreed to read the entire final draft – David ...
INTRODUCTION Cold War was the state of neither war nor peace between America and the Soviet Union in the decades after the Secon ...
2 THE END OF THE COLD WAR could much too easily still occur along the chain of surveillance. The political leaders with responsi ...
INTRODUCTION 3 permanent feature of global politics, and pacifists and anti-nuclear campaigners seemed entirely lacking in reali ...
4 THE END OF THE COLD WAR world.^2 According to a rival school, however, it was really Reagan’s anticommunist policies that drag ...
INTRODUCTION 5 Reagan favoured a goal of denuclearization that failed to convince most of his leading officials. Gorbachëv, thou ...
6 THE END OF THE COLD WAR same, at least until the end of the 1980s. Of the two, Gorbachëv had the tougher task, since he was al ...
INTRODUCTION 7 situation in the country until he introduced his programme of reforms. Was his picture of Kremlin politics a cred ...
8 THE END OF THE COLD WAR what they saw as his undue willingness to place his trust in the Krem- lin.^11 Kohl and his Ten Points ...
INTRODUCTION 9 reformers and prodded forward by Reagan and Bush, chose to travel in the opposite direction – and, step by step, ...
10 THE END OF THE COLD WAR a transformation that encompassed politics, economics, individual choice, institutional opportunity, ...
PART ONE ...
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1. RONALD REAGAN The man who entered the White House as US President on 20 January 1981 inspired anxiety in many people around t ...
14 THE END OF THE COLD WAR its presidential candidate in 1968. He lost again in 1976, to the incum- bent Gerald Ford, but was an ...
RONALD REAGAN 15 enter the official reports to the Politburo. Politburo member Andrei Gromyko had been Soviet Ambassador in Wash ...
16 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Richard Allen, Fred Iklé and William Van Cleave – had always known otherwise. Their words failed to ...
RONALD REAGAN 17 kept up his reading and grew to like the Cold War novels of Tom Clancy, whose Hunt for Red October he stayed up ...
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