The European and American dimensions of Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign
policy captured the imagination of contemporary observers and,
later, historians. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and
the fall of the Berlin Wall were the grand events that marked the
European finale of the Cold War. The Cold War ended differently in
Asia, where there was no easy closure, no great fanfare, and little
credit awarded for changing the world. Yet Gorbachev was fascinated
by Asia and in his early years in power, he addressed the subject
of Asia's rise and the importance of Soviet engagement with the
region. He spent years strategizing his Asian foreign policies and
attempting to build Soviet relationships with its regional
neighbors, particularly alongside China. In the end, Russia was
never accepted by Europe as part of the West, but it also failed in
its efforts to become a regional power. With the end of the Cold
War, Russia was marginalized in Asia, politically and economically,
unable to fit into the changed environment of international affairs
while adhering to the basic principles that made it a superpower.
In this broad-ranging and deeply researched second book, Sergey
Radchenko gracefully narrates and analyzes the end of the Cold War
in Asia. Among the relationships he addresses is the Sino-Soviet
normalization, which emerged in response to the difficulties both
sides had with the United States; the rise and fall of the
Soviet-Indian alliance, which Gorbachev envisioned as central to
offsetting US alliances in the region; failed Soviet efforts to
mend fences with Japan and to tap into Japanese capital to develop
Siberia and the Far East; Soviet efforts to influence relations
between Vietnam and Cambodia; and the USSR's decision to normalize
relations with South Korea after North Korea provided resistant to
political reform. Radchenko sheds new light on the actions of
Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, and
George H.W. Bush, among others. Based on archival research in
Russia, China, Mongolia, India, the United States, Britain,
numerous European countries, among other places, and interviews
with former policy makers in a dozen countries, Radchenko has
crafted a book that will appeal broadly to scholars, students, and
general readers. Cold War historians; historians of Japan, Korea,
China, and India; international relations scholars and political
scientists will comprise the academic market.
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