Louis Sell

From Washington to Moscow

US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361794
• ISBN-10: 0822361795
• Artikelnr.: 44140307

Autorenporträt

Louis Sell

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Two Treaties, Two Eras  1
1. First Visit to the USSR: Things Are Not as They Seem  5
2. Leonid Brezhnev: Power and Stagnation  9
3. Repression and Resistance  22
4. The Nixon Years  41
5. A Tale of Two Cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki  63
6. The Unhappy Presidency of Jimmy Carter  76
7. Two Crises and an Olympiad  96
8. Interregnum: Andropov in Power  114
9. Ronald Reagan's First Administration  128
10. Eagle vs. Bear: US and Soviet Approaches to Strategic Arms Control  145
11. Mikhail Gorbachev  165
12. Gorbachev Ascendant  184
13. New Kid on the Block: Gorbachev Emerges in US-Soviet Relations  196
14. "I Guess I Should Say Michael": The Turn in US-Soviet Relations  213
15. 1989: Year of Miracles or Time of Troubles?  242
16. Stumbling toward Collapse: Gorbachev's Final Eighteen Months  270
17. The August Coup  294
18. Red Star Falling  312
19. Why Did the USSR Collapse?  322
Postscript  339
Notes  351
Bibliography  383
Index  399