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Chargement... The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold Warpar Archie Brown
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In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies? The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of the decade, East-West relations had been utterly transformed, with most of the dividing lines - including the division of Europe - removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part of that process of change. More surprising was Thatcher's role. Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev (beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting Gorbachev in Washington as 'a man to do business with', she became, in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, 'an agent of influence in both directions'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:
-Print: Available – (Bib info from Amazon website: Hardcover) COPYRIGHT: 4/1/2020; ISBN-13: 978-0190614898; PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press; LENGTH: 512 pgs.
-Digital: (Bib info from Amazon website: Kindle) COPYRIGHT: March 13, 2020; PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press; FILE: 3092 KB; LENGTH: 512 pgs.
*Audio: (Info from Libby) COPYRIGHT: 4-May-2020; PUBLISHER: Books on Tape: Random House Audio; DURATION: approx. 21 hours; Unabridged (LAPL MP3)
Feature Film or tv: No.
SERIES: No.
CHARACTERS: (Not comprehensive)
-Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022; General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; [First and last] President of the Soviet Union)
-Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004; U. S. President [1981-1989])
-Nancy Reagan [née Anne Frances Robbins] (July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016; U.S. First Lady)
-Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [née Roberts] (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
-Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015; Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
-Charles David Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater (born 6 July 1941; Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister)Caspar Willard Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006; U. S. Secretary of Defense)
-Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010; U.S. Secretary of State [1982-1989])
-Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine (born 21 March 1933; Conservative [Tories] Member of Parliament)
-Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (born 3 January 1938; Private Secretary)
-Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014; Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs)
-Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021 ; General, U. S. Senior Military Assistant)
-George Pratt Shultz (December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021; U. S. Secretary of State [1982-1989])
-Pavel Palazchenko (born 17 March 1949; Soviet Chief English Interpreter)
-Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (July 12, 1937 – May 12, 2022; U. S. National Security Advisor)
-Donald Thomas Regan (December 21, 1918 – June 10, 2003; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury [1981-1985]; White House Chief of Staff [1985 to 1987])
Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev (May 26, 1921 – March 12, 2017; Soviet Principal Foreign-policy Advisor)
-Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov (October 4, 1924 – May 15, 2001; Soviet Aide)
-Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007; KGB First Chief Directorate)
-Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005; Soviet Union Communist Party Politburo and Secretariat Member)
-James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930; U. S. White House Chief of Staff [1981-1985, 1992-1993]; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury [1985-1988]; U. S. Secretary of State [1989-1992]
-Marshal Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020; Soviet Defense Minister)
-Frank Charles Carlucci III (October 18, 1930 – June 3, 2018; U. S. Secretary of Defense)
-Marshal Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991; Soviet Chief of the General Staff)
- Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942; Spanish Prime Minister)
-Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva [née Titarenko ] (5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999; Mikhail’s wife)
-Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014; Polish President)
-Barbara Jaruzelski (23 January 1931 – 29 May 2017; First Lady of Poland)
-François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (6 October 1916 – 8 January 1996; French President)
-George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018; U. S. President [1989-1993])
-Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin (9 March 1922 – 19 June 2019; Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom)
-Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943; U. S. CIA Director [1991-1993])
-Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June 1914 – 9 February 1984; General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [1982-1984])
-Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010; Soviet Ambassador to the United States [1962-1986]
-Jack Foust Matlock Jr. (born October 1, 1929; U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union)
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
-Selection: I’d found this author’s book on Communism quite informative, so figured this one would be also. (