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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sell, Louis, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
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?