TY  - BOOK
AU  - Service,Robert
TI  - The end of the Cold War: 1985-1991 
SN  - 9780230748088 (hbk.) :
AV  - D849 
U1  - 909.828 SER 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Perestroika
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1985-1991
KW  - Relations
KW  - History
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - 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. 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
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