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Our leading historian of the Soviet Union ... magisterial (Observer)
Detailed and clear ... his main strength is his forensic challenge to the clichés and myths on which western triumphalism about the Cold War is based ... Service is an authoritative voice offering a more nuanced view. (Victor Sebestyen Sunday Times)
An abundance of superbly organized material (Mary Dejevsky Independent)
Well-written and thought-provoking (Christopher Andrew Literary Review) --Sunday Times)
Masterful chronicle about personalities and ideas...The Cold War ended with the demise of the USSR in December 1991. The great biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trostsky here offers a superb account of how and why this unexpected denouement came about. (Vladimir Tismaneanu Times Higher Education Supplement) --Times Higher Education Supplement)
...what makes Service's book special is its scholarship. His terrier-like persistence in digging into previously unexcavated archives in Russia, across America and around the internet gives his view of this slice of our recent past a firm documentary foundation... A magisterial account of a turning point in modern history, whose intellectual rigour and robustness make it unlikely to be bettered. (Sherard Cowper-Coles Spectator) --(Sherard Cowper-Coles Spectator)
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Detailed and clear ... his main strength is his forensic challenge to the clichés and myths on which western triumphalism about the Cold War is based ... Service is an authoritative voice offering a more nuanced view. (Victor Sebestyen Sunday Times)
An abundance of superbly organized material (Mary Dejevsky Independent)
Well-written and thought-provoking (Christopher Andrew Literary Review) --Sunday Times)
Masterful chronicle about personalities and ideas...The Cold War ended with the demise of the USSR in December 1991. The great biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trostsky here offers a superb account of how and why this unexpected denouement came about. (Vladimir Tismaneanu Times Higher Education Supplement) --Times Higher Education Supplement)
...what makes Service's book special is its scholarship. His terrier-like persistence in digging into previously unexcavated archives in Russia, across America and around the internet gives his view of this slice of our recent past a firm documentary foundation... A magisterial account of a turning point in modern history, whose intellectual rigour and robustness make it unlikely to be bettered. (Sherard Cowper-Coles Spectator) --(Sherard Cowper-Coles Spectator)
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history and two years later resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In The End of the Cold War, acclaimed Russian historian Robert Service examines precisely how that change came about. Drawing on a vast and largely untapped range of sources, he builds a picture of the two men who spearheaded the breakthrough: Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, and Mikhail Gorbachev, last General Secretary of the Soviet Union and first and last President of the USSR. He also analyses the role of influential players not only in America and the USSR, but throughout Eastern and Western Europe, and focuses especially on Pope John Paul II, Lech Watesa and Vaclav Havel.
Authoritative, compelling and meticulously researched, this is political history at its best.
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- ÉditeurMacmillan
- Date d'édition2015
- ISBN 10 0230748082
- ISBN 13 9780230748088
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages562
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THE END OF THE COLD WAR : 1985-1991
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Macmillan, London
(2015)
ISBN 10 : 0230748082
ISBN 13 : 9780230748088
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. At the start of the 1980s it seemed that the Cold War, with its logic of 'mutually assured destruction', was a permanent stand-off between two irreconcilable foes. Yet the years between Mikhail Gorbachev becoming Soviet General Secretary in 1985 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 saw everything change. In this study Service analyses the thaw in US/USSR relations, focusing on the work of the 'big four': Gorbachev, Reagan and their foreign ministers Shevardnadze and Shultz. Ref II 5. N° de réf. du vendeur 033144
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