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    The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
    The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
    The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
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    The End of the Cold War 1985-1991

    Written by Robert Service

    Narrated by Ralph Lister

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    The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forbidding shadow of the Cold War, even the smallest miscalculation from either side could result in catastrophe.

    Everything changed in March 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union. Just four years later, the Cold War and the arms competition was over. The USSR and the US had peacefully and abruptly achieved an astonishing political settlement. But it was not preordained that a global crisis of unprecedented scale could and would be averted peaceably.

    Drawing on new archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War-the first to give equal attention to the internal deliberations from both sides of the Iron Curtain-opens a window onto the dramatic years that would irrevocably alter the world's geopolitical landscape, and the men at their fore.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781515974383
    The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
    Author

    Robert Service

    Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People , Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.

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      Very flattering depiction of Reagan as holding a hard line on the Soviets while always being willing to negotiate if the Soviets made the right concessions on human rights and accepting Star Wars. Meanwhile, Gorbachev, understanding the USSR’s increasingly desperate economic circumstances, was forced to the negotiating table so he could stop spending so much on defense. However, if you read carefully, Reagan kind of went with the last person he talked with—so when George Schultz was the last person, he was more willing to negotiate, and when Cap Weinberger was the last person, he was a hawk.