{"product_id":"the-great-transition-americansoviet-relations-and-the-end-of-the-cold-war","title":"The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaymond L. Garthoff examines the fateful final decade of U.S.- Soviet relations  from the start of the Reagan administration in 1981 through the end of the Soviet era-- the collapse of the communist bloc  the end of Gorbachevs failed perestroika  and the demise of the Soviet Union itself at the end of 1991. While standing on its own  the book is a sequel to the authors earlier acclaimed  Dtente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan  which covers the period 1969-1980.This volume features a detailed examination of the perspectives and actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union and their interaction  including the interrelationships of domestic factors with foreign and security policies in both countries and the involvement of both powers with other countries around the world  which infringed on their direct relationship. Besides analyzing the turn from confrontation to dtente over the years of the Reagan and Bush administrations and Brezhnev through the Gorbachev administration  it reflects on the significance of the great transition from the cold war to a new era. It thus illuminates the very relevant recent history that underlines and informs American-Russian relations and the new situation of a post-Soviet  post-cold war world.Garthoff has obtained access to many formerly secret Soviet documents on this period in the Russian archives  as well as to a number of official American documents that have only recently been declassified. In addition  he has been able to interview and discuss the issues with many active or former Soviet and American officials.The author concludes that the key development was the advent of a Soviet leader  Mikhail Gorbachev  who recognized the need to cast off a failed world view and to end the cold war-- and who successfully moved with the United States  under the Reagan and Bush administrations  and others  to achieve that goal; notwithstanding his failure in the parallel attempt to revitalize and transform the Soviet Union.Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book of 1994\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964993925173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0815730594","price":92.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780815730590.jpg?v=1770486366","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-transition-americansoviet-relations-and-the-end-of-the-cold-war","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}