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From Washington to Moscow : US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR
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From Washington to Moscow : US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR / Louis Sell.
ISBN
9780822374008
0822374005
9780822361794 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822361795 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822361954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822361957 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (408 pages)
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e-Duke books scholarly collection 2016.
Other formats
Print version: Sell, Louis, 1947- From Washington to Moscow. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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?.
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