
The Human Factor
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- Cover
- The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
- 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
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