| Название: Reagan and Gorbachev
ISBN: 0812974891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812974898
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan's
principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S.
ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person for Reagan's evolving
policy of conciliation toward the Soviet Union. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and archival sources both here and abroad, Matlock offers an insider's
perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, led by two men of surpassing vision. Matlock details how, from the start of his term, Reagan
privately pursued improved U.S.--U.S.S.R.
relations, while rebuilding America's military and fighting will in order to confront the Soviet Union while providing bargaining chips.
When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a potential partner in the enterprise of peace. At first the two leaders sparred, agreeing on
little.
Gradually a form of trust emerged, with Gorbachev taking politically risky steps that bore long-term benefits, like the agreement to abolish intermediate-range nuclear
missiles and the agreement to abolish intermediate-range nuclear missiles and the U.S.S.R.'s significant unilateral troop reductions in 1988. Through his recollections and unparalleled
access to the best and latest sources, Matlock describes Reagan's and Gorbachev's initial views of each other. We learn how the two prepared for their meetings; we discover that
Reagan occasionally wrote to Gorbachev in his own hand, both to personalize the correspondence and to prevent nit-picking by hard-linersin his administration.
We also see
how the two men were pushed closer together by the unlikeliest characters (Senator Ted Kennedy and Francois Mitterrand among them) and by the two leaders' remarkable foreign
ministers, George Shultz and Eduard Shevardnadze. The end of the Cold War is a key event in mode
n history, one that demanded bold individuals and decisive action. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev" "will be the standard reference, a work that is critical to our
understanding of the present and the past.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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