Format:
Book
Title:
From Washington to Moscow : US-Soviet relations and the collapse of the USSR / Louis Sell.
Author:
Sell, Louis, 1947-
Call Number:
327.73047 Sell
Publisher, Date:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Description:
408 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects:
1953-1991
Diplomatic relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Genre:
History.
Contents:
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?
ISBN:
9780822361794
0822361795
9780822361954
0822361957