Sell From Washington to Moscow

US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7400-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sell, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Louis Sell is a retired Foreign Service officer who served twentyseven years with the US Department of State, specializing in Soviet and Balkan affairs. He is the author of Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, also published by Duke University Press.