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Title: THE END OF THE COLD WAR
1985 - 1991
By: Robert Service
Format: Paperback

List price: £19.99


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ISBN 10: 0330517295
ISBN 13: 9780330517294
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 14 July, 2016
Edition: Main Market Ed.
Pages: 656
Synopsis: The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics and ideas - would end in their lifetimes. Even after March 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union it was not preordained that global nuclear Armageddon could or would be averted peaceably. But just four years later, the Berlin Wall was dismantled and perestroika spread throughout the former Soviet bloc. It was a sea change in world history, which resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on pioneering archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the astonishing relationships among President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary of State George Shultz and the USSR's last Foreign Affairs Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who found a way to cooperate during times of extraordinary change around the world. The story is of American pressure and Soviet long-term decline and over-stretch.The End of the Cold War shows how that small, skillful group of statesmen were determined to end the Cold War on their watch. In the process, they irreversibly transformed the global geopolitical landscape. Authoritative, compelling and meticulously researched, this is political history at its best.
Illustrations: 16pp plates
Publication: UK
Imprint: Pan Books
Prizes: Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2016
Returns: Non-returnable
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