The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 / Robert Service.
The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 / Robert Service.
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New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2015.
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G 2015/4567
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English
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xxii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Ronald Reagan -- Plans for Armageddon -- The Reaganauts -- The American challenge -- Symptoms recognized, cures rejected -- Cracks in the ice : Eastern Europe -- The Soviet quarantine -- NATO and its friends -- World communism and the peace movement -- In the Soviet waiting room -- Mikhail Gorbachev...
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New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2015.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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"A British historian and author investigates the final years of the Cold War from both sides of the Iron Curtain, discussing the relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev whose unprecedented, historic cooperation worked against the odds to end the arms race"-- NoveList.
On 26 December 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its denoue...
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The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 / Robert Service.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-518) and index.
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G 2015/4567
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74VKzd8VyEN3
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9781610394994 HC
1610394992 HC
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909.828
MMS ID
991023364029702626
