{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-cold-war-19851991-9781610394994","title":"The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 26 December  1991  the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet  just six years earlier  when Mikhail Gorbachv became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister  the Cold War seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its denouement  no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the standoff between the two superpowersafter decades of struggle over every aspect of security  politics  economics  and ideaswould end within the lifetime of the current generation. Nor was it at all obvious that that the Soviet political leadership would undertake a huge internal reform of the USSR  or that the threat of a nuclear Armageddon could or would be peacefully wound down.  Drawing on pioneering archival research  Robert Services gripping investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the extraordinary relationships between Ronald Reagan  Gorbachv  George Shultz  and Shevardnadze  who found ways to cooperate during times of exceptional change around the world. A story of American pressure and Soviet long-term decline and overstretch  The End of the Cold War: 19851991 shows how a small but skillful group of statesmen grew determined to end the Cold War on their watch and transformed the global political landscape irreversibly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666238955573,"sku":"ByrdShop_1610394992","price":20.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781610394994.jpg?v=1782424494","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-cold-war-19851991-9781610394994","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}