This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; and George H.W. Bush said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S.; from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow; and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev; these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides; as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow s sense of threat and unleashed Reagan s inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe; set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity; dissidents; reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented; and is likely never to be repeated.
#1887820 in Books Egbert Forsten Pub 1994-01-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .60 x 6.50 x 9.40l; .95 #File Name: 9069800675180 pages
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