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Title The last superpower summits : Gorbachev, Reagan, and Bush : conversations that ended the Cold War / Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton ; editorial assistant, Anna Melyakova
Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York : Central European University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series National Security Archive Cold War readers, 1587-2416
National Security Archive Cold War readers.
Contents Main Actors -- Chronology of Events -- The Geneva Summit, 1985 -- The Reykjavik Summit, 1986 -- The Washington Summit, 1987 -- The Moscow Summit, 1988 -- The Governors Island Summit, 1988 -- The Malta Summit, 1989 -- The Washington and Camp David Summit, 1990 -- The Helsinki Summit, Paris, and the War in the Gulf, 1990 -- The Moscow Summit, 1991 -- Epilogue: Madrid, 1991
Summary "This book presents and interprets the archival records pertaining to the last meetings between Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush between 1985 and 1990, and the transcripts which include direct quotes by top leaders, as far as the interpreters and the notetakers managed to capture them. Important sources are the excerpts from the transcripts of the foreign ministers--Eduard Shevardnadze, Alexander Bessmertnykh, George Shultz, and James Baker--especially when they go face to face with the president or the general secretary. The summit conversations fueled a process of learning on both sides. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented and appears to be largely missing in today's world"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2016)
Subject Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
Reagan, Ronald
Bush, George, 1924-2018
SUBJECT Bush, George, 1924-
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
Reagan, Ronald
Bush, George, 1924-2018 fast
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 fast
Reagan, Ronald fast
Subject Cold War -- Diplomatic history -- Sources
Summit meetings -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Great powers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Diplomacy
Diplomatic relations
Great powers
Summit meetings
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989 -- Sources
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-1993 -- Sources
Subject Soviet Union
United States
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Savranskaya, Svetlana, author
Blanton, Thomas S., author
Melyakova, Anna, editorial assistant
LC no. 2016037676
ISBN 9789633861714
9633861713