The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
382 THE END OF THE COLD WAR stressed that the USSR’s military intervention was really at an end. He added that the Afghans were ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 383 got ready to fly back to Moscow, the Chinese were slow about agreeing a communiqué – indeed, he ha ...
384 THE END OF THE COLD WAR USSR wanted amicable links with every Asian country. Saddam took the news stoically. He said he unde ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 385 round him in foreign countries, and wanted to avoid disorder. Gor- bachëv gave his consent. Deng f ...
386 THE END OF THE COLD WAR than they could give; and he saw no point in forcing the pace of restor- ing links between the Sovie ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 387 ‘democratism’. He admitted that the process had led to unforeseen complications. He ridiculed thos ...
388 THE END OF THE COLD WAR blindness about China’s economic achievements. Having seen inside those thriving industrial enterpri ...
THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 389 ing America’s national interest. Baker’s first instinct was to move cautiously regardless of feeli ...
34. EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM While repairing the links with the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet leadership also gave t ...
EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 391 marred the conference itself. The Italians objected to political repres- sion in the USSR and de ...
392 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Department. The outbreak of East European revolutions meant that communist parties in that whole hal ...
EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 393 leadership, he indicated, would continue to work for the liberation of the region’s peoples. But ...
394 THE END OF THE COLD WAR the people of Ethiopia faced utter destitution; his solution was for a joint effort by the Soviet an ...
EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 395 anything illegal was under production. Basically he preferred a proper investigation to take pla ...
396 THE END OF THE COLD WAR had a grasp of the details of the war in Angola; he supervised current operations, holding strategic ...
EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 397 important for Gorbachëv in his search for improved relations with the Americans.^29 The Nicaragu ...
398 THE END OF THE COLD WAR despite the growing interference of neighbouring Muslim countries.^33 Their alliance was fraying. Th ...
EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 399 invitations; but the likelihood of any one of these three accepting the invitation to spend days ...
35. REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE Eastern Europe had always troubled the Soviet leadership, and Poland was a constant complicatio ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 401 began to question the foundations of Gorbachëv’s foreign policy. On 12 March 1989, after return ...
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