From Washington to Moscow : US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR /
In From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs-many in Russian-as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: two treaties, two eras
- First visit to the USSR: things are not as they seem
- Leonid Brezhnev: power and stagnation
- Repression and resistance
- The Nixon years
- A tale of two cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki
- The unhappy presidency of Jimmy Carter
- Two crises and an Olympiad
- Interregnum: Andropov in power
- Ronald Reagan's first administration
- Eagle vs. bear: US and Soviet approaches to strategic arms control
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Gorbachev ascendant
- New kid on the block: Gorbachev emerges in US-Soviet relations
- I guess I should say Michael: the turn in US-Soviet relations
- 1989: year of miracles or time of troubles?
- Stumbling toward collapse: Gorbachev's final eighteen months
- The August coup
- Red star falling August coup aftermath
- Why did the USSR collapse?