The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.

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• FOREWORD: A Perspective from Moscow by Pavel Palazhchenko (978-0-8179-4632-6_vii.pdf ~100 KB)
• FOREWORD: A Perspective from Washington by George P. Shultz (978-0-8179-4632-6_xix.pdf ~69 KB)
• INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: Talking Across the Cold War Divide by Kiron K. Skinner (978-0-8179-4632-6_1.pdf ~99 KB)
• CHAPTER 1: The End of Detente and the Reformulation of American Strategy: 1980–1983 by Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (978-0-8179-4632-6_11.pdf ~167 KB)
• COMMENTARY: What Lessons Learned? by Alexei Arbatov (978-0-8179-4632-6_40.pdf ~133 KB)
• CHAPTER 2: The Crisis that Didn't Erupt: The Soviet-American Relationship, 1980–1983 by Oleg Grinevsky (978-0-8179-4632-6_63.pdf ~169 KB)
• COMMENTARY: An Alternative Conception of Mutual Cooperation by Kiron K. Skinner (978-0-8179-4632-6_93.pdf ~137 KB)
• CHAPTER 3: Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: The Concept by Anatoli Cherniaev (978-0-8179-4632-6_111.pdf ~163 KB)
• COMMENTARY: Moving to Globalization by David Holloway (978-0-8179-4632-6_141.pdf ~84 KB)
• CHAPTER 4: Soviet-American Relations in the Third World by Georgi I. Mirski (978-0-8179-4632-6_149.pdf ~183 KB)
• COMMENTARY: Reversal of Fortune? by Peter W. Rodman (978-0-8179-4632-6_182.pdf ~87 KB)
• CHAPTER 5: Europe Between the Superpowers by Robert L. Hutchings (978-0-8179-4632-6_191.pdf ~164 KB)
• COMMENTARY: Europe Between the Superpowers: A Soviet Perspective by Karen Brutents (978-0-8179-4632-6_218.pdf ~92 KB)
• CHAPTER 6: German Unification by Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice (978-0-8179-4632-6_229.pdf ~148 KB)
• COMMENTARY: German Unification from the Soviet (Russian) Perspective by Vladislav Zubok (978-0-8179-4632-6_255.pdf ~121 KB)
• CHAPTER 7: Boris Yeltsin: Catalyst for the Cold War's End by Michael McFaul (978-0-8179-4632-6_273.pdf ~182 KB)
• COMMENTARY: Boris Yeltsin: Catalyst for the Cold War's End? by Nikolai Petrov (978-0-8179-4632-6_306.pdf ~134 KB)
• CONTRIBUTORS (978-0-8179-4632-6_327.pdf ~68 KB)
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (978-0-8179-4632-6_333.pdf ~37 KB)
• INDEX (978-0-8179-4632-6_335.pdf ~113 KB)