The End of the Cold War

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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 TWENTIETH CENTURY.
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of peresuoika throughout the former Soviet bloc vi/as a sea change in world history and two years later resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the astonishing relationships among President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachëv, Secretary of State George Shultz and the USSR's last foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who found a way to cooperate during times of extraordinary change around the world. The story is of American pressure and Soviet long-term decline and overstretch. The End of the Cold War shows how that small, skilful group of statesmen were determined to end the Cold War on their watch. In the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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 TWENTIETH CENTURY.
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of peresuoika throughout the former Soviet bloc vi/as a sea change in world history and two years later resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the astonishing relationships among President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachëv, Secretary of State George Shultz and the USSR's last foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who found a way to cooperate during times of extraordinary change around the world. The story is of American pressure and Soviet long-term decline and overstretch. The End of the Cold War shows how that small, skilful group of statesmen were determined to end the Cold War on their watch. In the process, they irreversibly transformed the global geopolitical landscape.
Authoritative, compelling and meticulously researched, this is political history at its best.
Robert Service, award-v^inning historian and one of our finest commentators on all matters Soviet, returns v^ith an immensely readable piece of narrative non-fiction
He is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Trotsky: A Biography, Stalin: A Biography and Spies and Commissars, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present
Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize in 2009
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