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From Washington to Moscow : US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR
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- Creator
- Louis Sell
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- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 408 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822361794, 9780822374008, 0822361957, 9780822361954, 0822374005, 0822361795
- OCLC
- ocn951109053, ocn929591997
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-397) and index.
- Preface: two treaties, two eras -- First visit to the USSR: things are not as they seem -- Leonid Brezhnev: power and stagnation -- Repression and resistance -- The Nixon years -- A tale of two cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki -- The unhappy presidency of Jimmy Carter -- Two crises and an Olympiad -- Interregnum: Andropov in power -- Ronald Reagan's first administration -- Eagle vs. bear: US and Soviet approaches to strategic arms control -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Gorbachev ascendant -- New kid on the block: Gorbachev emerges in US-Soviet relations -- I guess I should say Michael: the turn in US-Soviet relations -- 1989: year of miracles or time of troubles? -- Stumbling toward collapse: Gorbachev's final eighteen months -- The August coup -- Red star falling August coup aftermath -- Why did the USSR collapse?