| 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? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-397) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016006457 |
| ISBN | 9780822361794 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822361795 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822361954 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822361957 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
