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"In 1983, U.S.-Soviet relations appeared to be in an uncontrollable free fall. It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, and obtained permission from Western European governments to deploy intermediate nuclear forces (INF) on their soil. The Soviet government retaliated by walking out of the INF and Strategic Arms Reductions Talks. Yet, just two years later, Reagan and new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held their first summit and jointly declared that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." Between 1988 and 1991, peaceful revolutions spread throughout Eastern Europe as the Warsaw Pact nations embraced democracy. These historic events defied widespread expectations, as many experts expected the cold war to end with a nuclear war. Why were they proved wrong?" "The essays in this collection offer illuminating insights into the key players - Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and others - and the monumental events that led to the collapse of communism. The expert contributors examine the end of detente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more."--Jacket
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monografia Rebiun28069048 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28069048 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 130819s2008 cau ob 001 0 eng d 535578692 961556161 962689518 9780817946333 electronic bk.) 0817946330 electronic bk.) 9780817946388 electronic bk.) 0817946381 electronic bk.) 9780817946319 0817946314 9780817946326 0817946322 37F71553-10DC-4BAE-8CE5-877C14A54537 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com N$T eng pn N$T MUU BDX E7B IDEBK VALIL OCLCQ OCLCF YDXCP EBLCP OCLCQ TEFOD DEBSZ OCL OCLCQ OCL AZK LOA AGLDB ICA MOR PIFAG OCLCQ ZCU MERUC OCLCQ OCLCO U3W D6H STF WRM VTS NRAMU ICG VT2 OCLCQ OCLCO WYU TKN DKC OCLCQ OCL INARC AJS e-ur--- n-us--- POL 040020 bisacsh POL 011000 bisacsh Turning points in ending the Cold War edited by Kiron K. Skinner ; forewords by Pavel Palazhchenko and George P. Shultz Stanford, Calif. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University ©2008 Stanford, Calif. Stanford, Calif. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University 1 online resource (xxiv, 358 pages) 1 online resource (xxiv, 358 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Hoover Institution Press publication no. 538 Includes bibliographical references and index The end of détente and the reformulation of American strategy, 1980-1983 / Jack F. Matlock Jr. -- The crisis that didn't erupt : the Soviet-American relationship, 1980-1983 / Oleg Grinevsky -- Gorbachev's foreign policy : the concept / Anatoly Cherniaev -- Soviet-American relations in the Third World / Georgy Mirsky -- Europe between the superpowers / Robert L. Hutchings -- German unification / Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice -- Boris Yeltsin : catalyst for the Cold War's end / Michael McFaul "In 1983, U.S.-Soviet relations appeared to be in an uncontrollable free fall. It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, and obtained permission from Western European governments to deploy intermediate nuclear forces (INF) on their soil. The Soviet government retaliated by walking out of the INF and Strategic Arms Reductions Talks. Yet, just two years later, Reagan and new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held their first summit and jointly declared that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." Between 1988 and 1991, peaceful revolutions spread throughout Eastern Europe as the Warsaw Pact nations embraced democracy. These historic events defied widespread expectations, as many experts expected the cold war to end with a nuclear war. Why were they proved wrong?" "The essays in this collection offer illuminating insights into the key players - Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and others - and the monumental events that led to the collapse of communism. The expert contributors examine the end of detente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more."--Jacket Cold War POLITICAL SCIENCE- Government- International POLITICAL SCIENCE- International Relations- General Diplomatic relations Kalter Krieg- Kriegsende Internationale Politik- Geschichte 1945-2000. Kalter Krieg Ende Soviet Union- Foreign relations- United States Estados Unidos- Foreign relations- Soviet Union Soviet Union- Foreign relations- 1975-1985 Soviet Union- Foreign relations- 1985-1991 Estados Unidos- Foreign relations- 1981-1989 Soviet Union Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Sowjetunion Electronic books Skinner, Kiron K. Print version Turning points in ending the Cold War. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2008 9780817946319 (DLC) 2006008247 (OCoLC)64896402 Hoover Institution Press publication 538