The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 write by Robert Service. This book was released on 2015-11-10. The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, 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 seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the standoff between the two superpowers -- after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics, and ideas -- would end within the lifetime of the current generation. Nor was it at all obvious that that the Soviet political leadership would undertake a huge internal reform of the USSR, or that the threat of a nuclear Armageddon could or would be peacefully wound down. Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Service's gripping investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the extraordinary relationships between Ronald Reagan, Gorbachev, George Shultz, and Shevardnadze, who found ways to cooperate during times of exceptional change around the world. A story of American pressure and Soviet long-term decline and overstretch, The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 shows how a small but skillful group of statesmen grew determined to end the Cold War on their watch and transformed the global political landscape irreversibly.
The End of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the Cold War write by Robert Service. This book was released on 2015-10-01. The End of the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive account to reveal exactly how the Cold War - and the Soviet Union - came to an end, a process which transformed the world in the late 20th century. "Our leading historian of the Soviet Union ... magisterial" Observer The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history and two years later resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In The End of the Cold War, acclaimed Russian historian Robert Service examines precisely how that change came about. Drawing on a vast and largely untapped range of sources, he builds a picture of the two men who spearheaded the breakthrough: Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, and Mikhail Gorbachev, last General Secretary of the Soviet Union and first and last President of the USSR. He also analyses the role of influential players not only in America and the USSR, but throughout Eastern and Western Europe, and focuses especially on Pope John Paul II, Lech Watesa and Vaclav Havel. Authoritative, compelling and meticulously researched, this is political history at its best. PRAISE FOR ROBERT SERVICE "An abundance of superbly organized material" Independent "Detailed and clear ... his main strength is his forensic challenge to the clichés and myths on which western triumphalism about the Cold War is based ... Service is an authoritative voice offering a more nuanced view." Sunday Times "Well-written and thought-provoking" Literary Review "Masterful chronicle about personalities and ideas ..." Times Higher Education Supplement "A magisterial account of a turning point in modern history, whose intellectual rigour and robustness make it unlikely to be bettered" Spectator
The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction
The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction write by Robert J. McMahon. This book was released on 2021-02-25. The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.
The End of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the Cold War write by David Armstrong. This book was released on 2013-11-05. The End of the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Giving an overview of the origins and history of the Cold War, this work considers whether the Cold War is truly over, and what the effects have been on Europe, and the former Soviet Union, as well as US foreign policy.
The Last Superpower Summits
The Last Superpower Summits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Superpower Summits write by Svetlana Savranskaya. This book was released on 2016-11-01. The Last Superpower Summits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.
