Gorbachev and Reagan

The Last Superpower Summits. Conversations That Ended the Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-963-386-346-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: National Security Archive Cold War Reader - CEU Press

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savranskaya, Svetlana

Blanton, Thomas S

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, 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

Über Autor(innen)

Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Research Fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and since 2001 the director of the Archive's Russia programs.

Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.