Masterpieces of History : The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989
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| Title: | Masterpieces of History : The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 |
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| Description: | Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers'role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications of Gorbachev with George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses, this volume offers a rare insider's look at the historic, world-transforming events that culminated in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. Most of these records have never been published before. |
| Authors: | Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas S. Blanton, Vladislav Zubok |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Cold War--Sources, World politics--1985-1995--Sources |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Western |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers'role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Consisting of Politburo minutes; diary entries from Gorbachev's senior aide, Anatoly Chernyaev; meeting notes and private communications of Gorbachev with George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand; and high-level CIA analyses, this volume offers a rare insider's look at the historic, world-transforming events that culminated in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. Most of these records have never been published before. |
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| ISBN: | 9789639776777 9781441677051 9786155211881 |
