دانلود کتاب The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War

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Cover
The Human Factor
Copyright
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY
NOTE ON TERMS AND TRANSLITERATION
INTRODUCTION
Part I
1: THE COLD WAR AND ITS DANGERS
The Communist Takeover of Eastern Europe
The Asian Battleground
Change and Unrest in Eastern and Central Europe
On the Verge of Catastrophe
2: THE MAKING OF MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
The 1940s
Moscow University
Back to Stavropol
3: GORBACHEV’S WIDENING HORIZONS
New Vistas
Five Hours with ‘the Iron Lady’
Gorbachev’s Thinking on the Eve of Perestroika
4: THE RISE OF RONALD REAGAN
Hollywood
Politics Beckons
5: REAGAN’S FIRST TERM
New Broom at the State Department
‘Evil Empire’ and SDI
A Shift of Personnel and of Priorities
Mixed Signals
6: MARGARET THATCHER: The Moulding of the ‘Iron Lady’
Foreign Policy Influences
Early Years of the Thatcher Premiership
Falklands War and Relations with Reagan
7: THATCHER AND THE TURN TO ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNIST EUROPE
A ‘New Policy’
Ups and Downs of the Relationship with Reagan
Part II
8: BREAKING THE ICE (1985)
Stereotypes and Realities
Tensions within the Three Governments
Approaches to the Summit
Geneva, November 1985
9: NUCLEAR FALLOUT: Chernobyl and Reykjavik (1986)
New People and New Thinking in Moscow
Chernobyl and its Impact
Reagan Administration Wrangles over Soviet Policy
Reykjavik
Reaction to Reykjavik in Moscow, Washington, and London
10: BUILDING TRUST (1987)
Putting Political Reform on the Soviet Agenda
Thatcher and the Puzzle of Perestroika
Thatcher’s ‘Most Fascinating and Most Important Foreign Visit’
Shultz’s Battles in Washington and Progress in Moscow
Shoring up the Domestic Base—Gorbachev and Reagan
The Washington Summit
11: THE END OF THE IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE (1988)
Intra-Elite Differences in Moscow
Harmonizing Western Approaches
Reagan in Moscow
Gorbachev and Radicalization of the Programme for Change
Margaret Thatcher’s Diplomacy
The New Thinking Comes to New York
12: THE END OF THE COLD WAR (1989)
The Bush Administration’s Soviet Policy: A Sluggish and Uncertain Start
Gorbachev and the Pluralization of the Soviet Political System
Gorbachev–Thatcher Diplomacy Deepened
Gorbachev’s Activism at Home and Abroad
Baker’s First Visit to Moscow
Head of Government Diplomacy in Europe
The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe
The Malta Summit
13: WHY THE COLD WAR ENDED WHEN IT DID
Leadership, Power, and Ideas
The Military and the Economy
Western Power and Western Influence
Part III
14: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (1990)
The Soviet Domestic Context
The German Question
Margaret Thatcher and German Unification
Diplomacy or War in the Middle East?
Departure of Thatcher and Shevardnadze
15: FINAL YEAR—OF THE USSR AND OF GORBACHEV’S POWER (1991)
The National Question in the USSR
International Politics before the Coup
Crisis of the Party and the State
The August Coup
From Coup to Collapse
16: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR: Concluding Reflections
The Importance of Engagement
Leaders, Alternatives, and Outcomes
Achievements and Failures
The Turn to Triumphalism
Drawing Lessons
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PICTURE CREDITS
INDEX