The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
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11. MIKHAIL GORBACHËV Gorbachëv’s chance to jemmy open the doors of Soviet and global politics came with the death of Chernenko ...
120 THE END OF THE COLD WAR line-up. He scheduled the next meeting, which was to decide who would succeed to the general secreta ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHËV 121 Stavropol district collective farm in 1931, he grew up committed to Lenin and the October Revolution of 19 ...
122 THE END OF THE COLD WAR of Jews and communists. Gorbachëv’s mother spirited him off to a nearby village for fear that he mig ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHËV 123 intermediate-range missiles – American, British and French – in the discussion; they also registered objec ...
124 THE END OF THE COLD WAR race into outer space. This pleased Gorbachëv. Less helpful was Kohl, who stood by the Americans. Pr ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHËV 125 with a single break, sometimes did not end until nine at night. Gor- bachëv soon came to recognize that th ...
126 THE END OF THE COLD WAR conversations. The painter Ivan Glazunov, a Russian nationalist, sug- gested that Gorbachëv would ha ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHËV 127 involving ever renewed efforts.’^57 He blamed America for the confron- tation with the USSR. He accused th ...
12. THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM Every upward step on the slopes of reform required a tensing of Gorbachëv’s leg muscles, and he knew ...
THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 129 September 1985; and Chebrikov remained as KGB Chairman. All had helped him to gain selection as Gener ...
130 THE END OF THE COLD WAR transition by showering the veteran with flattery: ‘We’re not going to find a second A. A. Gromyko.’ ...
THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 131 release some time later.^17 His own wife Nanuli had started by rejecting his proposal of marriage for ...
132 THE END OF THE COLD WAR in the entire style of Soviet politics. Cults were no longer appropriate. Yakovlev had enjoyed Gorba ...
THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 133 Kant to Marx the revolutionary.^38 He certainly had a cultural hinter- land. Less patient than Gorbac ...
134 THE END OF THE COLD WAR year he made a daring proposal to cut back the size of staff in the industrial sector and prevent re ...
THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 135 little interest in new weapons or equipment. He wanted the country’s genuine specialists – and not ju ...
136 THE END OF THE COLD WAR from insomnia.^62 He recognized the weaknesses in his grasp of inter- national relations.^63 He told ...
THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 137 1 December 1985 at a conference of party members in the ministry he issued a startling injunction: no ...
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