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A Journey through the Cold War : A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence /

In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage points of an observant insider. His intellectually formative years coincided with the earliest days of the cold war, and during his forty-year career, Gartho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garthoff, Raymond L. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Brookings Institution
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : why this memoir?
  • The Cold War begins : the formative years, 1945-50
  • The view from a think tank : Soviet affairs expert at RAND
  • The thaw : observing the Soviet Union after Stalin
  • CIA and intelligence analysis and estimates
  • "Foreign affairs adviser" at the Pentagon
  • Intelligence excursions in the Soviet Union
  • The espionage game
  • Department of State : the Kennedy years (I)
  • Department of State : the Kennedy years (II)
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis : turning point of the Cold War
  • Department of State : the Johnson years
  • The diplomacy of East-West relations
  • Negotiating on strategic arms : SALT and the ABM Treaty
  • Developing detente in U.S.-Soviet relations
  • Inspecting the American conduct of foreign relations
  • Ambassador to Bulgaria
  • The decline and collapse of the detente of the 1970s
  • Witness to the Cold War endgame : 1980-90
  • Reflections on the Cold War
  • Epilogue : a personal reminiscence.