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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Service, Robert (1947-....)
Titre(s) : The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991 [Texte imprimé] / Robert Service
Publication : New York : PublicAffairs, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXII-643 pages-[16] p. de pl.) : illustrations, cartes ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; 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 Gorbachëv ; The Moscow reform team ; One
foot on the accelerator ; To Geneva ; Presenting the Soviet package ; American
rejection ; The stalled interaction ; The Strategic Defense Initiative ; The lost
summer ; Summit in Reykjavik ; The month of muffled drums ; The Soviet package
untied ; The big four ; Getting to know the enemy ; Sticking points ; Grinding
out the treaty ; Calls to Western Europe ; Eastern Europe : perplexity and protest
; The leaving of Afghanistan ; Spokes in the wheel ; Reagan's window of departure
; The fifth man ; The other continent : Asia ; Epitaph for world communism ; Revolution
in Eastern Europe ; The Malta Summit ; Redrawing the map of Europe ; The new Germany
; Baltic triangle ; The third man breaks loose ; A new world order? ; Endings
; Postscript.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-518) and index
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 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 the Soviet political leadership would undertake a huge
internal reform of the USSR, or that the threat of a nuclear Armageddon could be peacefully
wound down. Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Service's 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 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."
Sujet(s) : Relations internationales -- 1975-1989
Guerre froide
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1981-1989
Relations extérieures -- URSS -- 1985-1991
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781610394994 (HC). - ISBN 1610394992 (HC). - ISBN 9781610395007 (EB). - ISBN
161039500X (EB)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450257461
Notice n° :
FRBNF45025746
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
