The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War

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The Human Factor
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Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY
NOTE ON TERMS AND TRANSLITERATION
INTRODUCTION
Part I
	1: THE COLD WAR AND ITS DANGERS
		The Communist Takeover of Eastern Europe
		The Asian Battleground
		Change and Unrest in Eastern and Central Europe
		On the Verge of Catastrophe
	2: THE MAKING OF MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
		The 1940s
		Moscow University
		Back to Stavropol
	3: GORBACHEV’S WIDENING HORIZONS
		New Vistas
		Five Hours with ‘the Iron Lady’
		Gorbachev’s Thinking on the Eve of Perestroika
	4: THE RISE OF RONALD REAGAN
		Hollywood
		Politics Beckons
	5: REAGAN’S FIRST TERM
		New Broom at the State Department
		‘Evil Empire’ and SDI
		A Shift of Personnel and of Priorities
		Mixed Signals
	6: MARGARET THATCHER: The Moulding of the ‘Iron Lady’
		Foreign Policy Influences
		Early Years of the Thatcher Premiership
		Falklands War and Relations with Reagan
	7: THATCHER AND THE TURN TO ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNIST EUROPE
		A ‘New Policy’
		Ups and Downs of the Relationship with Reagan
Part II
	8: BREAKING THE ICE (1985)
		Stereotypes and Realities
		Tensions within the Three Governments
		Approaches to the Summit
		Geneva, November 1985
	9: NUCLEAR FALLOUT: Chernobyl and Reykjavik (1986)
		New People and New Thinking in Moscow
		Chernobyl and its Impact
		Reagan Administration Wrangles over Soviet Policy
		Reykjavik
		Reaction to Reykjavik in Moscow, Washington, and London
	10: BUILDING TRUST (1987)
		Putting Political Reform on the Soviet Agenda
		Thatcher and the Puzzle of Perestroika
		Thatcher’s ‘Most Fascinating and Most Important Foreign Visit’
		Shultz’s Battles in Washington and Progress in Moscow
		Shoring up the Domestic Base—Gorbachev and Reagan
		The Washington Summit
	11: THE END OF THE IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE (1988)
		Intra-Elite Differences in Moscow
		Harmonizing Western Approaches
		Reagan in Moscow
		Gorbachev and Radicalization of the Programme for Change
		Margaret Thatcher’s Diplomacy
		The New Thinking Comes to New York
	12: THE END OF THE COLD WAR (1989)
		The Bush Administration’s Soviet Policy: A Sluggish and Uncertain Start
		Gorbachev and the Pluralization of the Soviet Political System
		Gorbachev–Thatcher Diplomacy Deepened
		Gorbachev’s Activism at Home and Abroad
		Baker’s First Visit to Moscow
		Head of Government Diplomacy in Europe
		The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe
		The Malta Summit
	13: WHY THE COLD WAR ENDED WHEN IT DID
		Leadership, Power, and Ideas
		The Military and the Economy
		Western Power and Western Influence
Part III
	14: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (1990)
		The Soviet Domestic Context
		The German Question
		Margaret Thatcher and German Unification
		Diplomacy or War in the Middle East?
		Departure of Thatcher and Shevardnadze
	15: FINAL YEAR—OF THE USSR AND OF GORBACHEV’S POWER (1991)
		The National Question in the USSR
		International Politics before the Coup
		Crisis of the Party and the State
		The August Coup
		From Coup to Collapse
	16: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR: Concluding Reflections
		The Importance of Engagement
		Leaders, Alternatives, and Outcomes
		Achievements and Failures
		The Turn to Triumphalism
		Drawing Lessons
	NOTES
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	PICTURE CREDITS
	INDEX