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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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National Security Archive Cold War readers
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National Security Archive Cold War readers.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgment -- Main Actors -- Chronology of Events -- Chapter 1. THE GENEVA SUMMIT, 1985 -- Chapter 2. THE REYKJAVIK SUMMIT, 1986 -- Chapter 3. THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT, 1987 -- Chapter 4. THE MOSCOW SUMMIT, 1988 -- Chapter 5. THE GOVERNORS ISLAND SUMMIT, 1988 -- Selected Bibliography -- INDEX -- Geneva Summit 1985 -- Reykjavik Summit 1986 -- Washington Summit 1987 -- Moscow Summit 1988 -- Governors Island Summit 1988 |
| Summary |
"This book is the culmination of twenty years of research in which the editors gathered thousands of pages documenting the most important conversations of the late Cold War. Every word Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said to each other in their five superpower summits from 1985 to 1988 is included in this volume. The editors argue in their contextual essays and detailed notes that these summits fueled a learning process on both sides of the Cold War. Their anthology provides insight into the nuanced shifts of monumentally important discussions, showing how Moscow's sense of threat was eased and how a hawkish Reagan softened his tone in negotiations during his second presidential term. Documents from foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and George Shultz offer a particularly intriguing look into the handful of conversations that ended almost half a century of conflict. These verbatim transcripts, until now top secret, are combined with fascinating photos and crucial information from declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both the Americans and Soviets, obtained in the US through the Freedom of Information Act and in Russia from the Gorbachev Foundation, the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal files of Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy adviser"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022. |
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Reagan, Ronald.
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Reagan, Ronald. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Sources.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.
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Cold War -- Diplomatic history -- Sources.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Diplomatic history. |
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Summit meetings -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Summit meetings. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. |
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Diplomacy. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Cold War, Diplomacy, Foreign relations, Military History, Religion, Soviet Union, United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Savranskaya, Svetlana, editor.
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Blanton, Thomas S., editor.
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Melyakova, Anna, editorial assistant.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789633863466 9633863465 (OCoLC)1103504050 |
| ISBN |
9789633863473 (electronic book) |
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9633863473 (electronic book) |
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9789633863466 |
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9633863465 |
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