Turn From the Cold War to a New Era: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1990

Name: Turn From the Cold War to a New Era: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1990
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ISBN: 9780801859229

ISBN-10: 0801859220

ISBN-13: 9780801859229

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Don Oberdorfer

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An updated edition of Don Oberdorfer's acclaimed book, The Turn "The most thorough account yet of what we can all agree was a crucial era in world politics."--Michael R. Beschloss, New York Times Book Review "A highly readable and utterly persuasive account of why the Cold War came to end the way it did."--Fred Barnes, American Spectator First published in 1991 as The Turn, this is the gripping narrative history of the most important international development of our time--the passage of the United States and the Soviet Union from the Cold War to a new era. Don Oberdorfer makes the reader a privileged behind-the-scenes spectator as U.S. and Soviet leaders take each other's measure and…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition



A Candle in the Cold



The EBB Tide



The Chernenko Interlude



Gorbachev Takes Command



High Stakes at Reykjavik



To the Washington Summit



Reagan in Red Square



The Revolution of 1989



A New Era



The End of the Soviet Union


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes and Sources


Index