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1/C PMS (BLACK C) + PHOENIX FOIL S11 SOFT TOUCH MATTE LAMINATION hiStoR y $35.00 T H E r o b e r t s e r v i c e T H E E N D “Authoritative and deeply informed....[A] E N D masterful account of the final years of the Cold War, on 26 december, 1991, when a small, remarkable group of statesmen of the o f t h e sought an end to the dangerous standoff between the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin COLD superpowers....This study of the end of a cardinal for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Ro b eR t S eR v i c e C O L D episode of modern history is scholarly yet accessible: Gorbachëv became general secretary of the Communist is a historian and academic who has written extensively detailed, expansive, and engaging.” Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze WAR on the entire period of Soviet rule in Russia. Service is the —Publishers Weekly, starred review as his foreign minister, the Cold War seemed like a perma- author of twelve books and a fellow of the British Academy. nent fixture in world politics. Until its denouement, no He is currently an emeritus professor of Russian history at Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the standoff the University of Oxford and a senior fellow at Stanford WA R between the two superpowers—after decades of struggle “A wholly satisfying, likely definitive, but not University’s Hoover Institution. 19 85-19 91 over every aspect of security, politics, economics, and ideas— triumphalist account of the end of an era.” would end within the lifetime of the current generation. —kirkus, starred review Nor was it at all obvious that the Soviet political leadership would undertake a huge internal reform of the USSR, or that the threat of a nuclear Armageddon could or would be 1 9 8 5 - 1 9 9 1 “Recommended for political scientists, historians, cold peacefully wound down. warriors, and those who value diplomacy.” Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Ser- —library Journal, starred review vice’s gripping investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the extraordinary relationships between Ronald r ob e rt Reagan, Gorbachëv, George Shultz, and Shevardnadze, who found ways to cooperate during times of exceptional change Jacket deSign by Pete gaRceau Jacket PhotogRaPh © Ronald Reagan libRaR y/getty imageS s e rv ic e around the world. A story of American pressure and Soviet $35.00 long-term decline and overstretch, The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991 shows how a small but skillful group of states- available as an e-book visit www.publicaffairsbooks.com www.publicaffairsbooks.com men grew determined to end the Cold War on their watch follow @public_affairs on twitter and transformed the global political landscape irreversibly. SILVER FOIL INDICATED ON PAGE 2 THE END OF THE COLD WAR 1985–1991 9781610394994-text.pdf1 Also by Robert Service The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change Lenin: A Political Life Volume One: The Strengths of Contradiction Volume Two: Worlds in Collision Volume Three: The Iron Ring The Russian Revolution, 1900–1927 A History of Twentieth-Century Russia Lenin: A Biography Stalin: A Biography Comrades: A History of World Communism Trotsky: A Biography Spies and Commissars: Soviet Russia and the West 9781610394994-text.pdf2 THE END OF THE COLD WAR 1985–1991 ROBERT SERVICE PUBLICAffairs New York 9781610394994-text.pdf3 Copyright © 2015 by Robert Service. First published 2015 in the United Kingdom by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Published in the United States by PublicAffairs™, a Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address PublicAffairs, 250 West 57th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10107. PublicAffairs books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the U.S. by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, 2300 Chestnut Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, call (800) 810-4145, ext. 5000, or e-mail [email protected]. Typeset by Ellipsis Digital Limited, Glasgow Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942161 ISBN 978-1-61039-499-4 (HC) ISBN 978-1-61039-500-7 (EB) First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9781610394994-text.pdf4 For Oscar and Carla 9781610394994-text.pdf5 9781610394994-text.pdf6 CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Maps xiii Preface xix INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE 1. RONALD REAGAN 13 2. PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 24 3. THE REAGANAUTS 34 4. THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE 43 5. SYMPTOMS RECOGNIZED, CURES REJECTED 53 6. CRACKS IN THE ICE: EASTERN EUROPE 65 7. THE SOVIET QUARANTINE 77 8. NATO AND ITS FRIENDS 84 9. WORLD COMMUNISM AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT 93 10. IN THE SOVIET WAITING ROOM 102 9781610394994-text.pdf7 PART TWO 11. MIKHAIL GORBACHËV 119 12. THE MOSCOW REFORM TEAM 128 13. ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 138 14. TO GENEVA 150 15. PRESENTING THE SOVIET PACKAGE 161 16. AMERICAN REJECTION 169 17. THE STALLED INTERACTION 178 18. THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE 191 19. THE LOST SUMMER 197 20. SUMMIT IN REYKJAVIK 209 INTERMEZZO 21. THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 221 PART THREE 22. THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 235 23. THE BIG FOUR 249 24. GETTING TO KNOW THE ENEMY 258 25. STICKING POINTS 274 26. GRINDING OUT THE TREATY 285 27. CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 301 9781610394994-text.pdf8 28. EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 314 29. THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN 329 30. SPOKES IN THE WHEEL 339 31. REAGAN’S WINDOW OF DEPARTURE 351 PART FOUR 32. THE FIFTH MAN 363 33. THE OTHER CONTINENT: ASIA 378 34. EPITAPH FOR WORLD COMMUNISM 390 35. REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 400 36. THE MALTA SUMMIT 416 37. REDRAWING THE MAP OF EUROPE 427 38. THE NEW GERMANY 441 39. BALTIC TRIANGLE 452 40. THE THIRD MAN BREAKS LOOSE 463 41. A NEW WORLD ORDER? 473 42. ENDINGS 482 POSTSCRIPT 496 Select Bibliography 501 Notes 519 Index 623 9781610394994-text.pdf9
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