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The Human Factor - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War (Paperback)
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The Human Factor - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War (Paperback)
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How the Cold War ended - and the people who made it happen In this
penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the
Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that
Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with
no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the
significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald
Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second
half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What
were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their
perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what
extent were they reflecting the views of their own political
establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the
East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the
realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time
have pursued approximately the same policies? The Cold War got
colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two
military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom
had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of
the decade, East-West relations had been utterly transformed, with
most of the dividing lines -including the division of Europe-
removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part
of that process of change. More surprising was Thatcher's role.
Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she
formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev
(beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting
Gorbachev in Washington as a man to do business with, she became,
in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, an
agent of influence in both directions.
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