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How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an "evil
empire" in his first term as president to saying the US had "forged
a satisfying new closeness" with the Soviets by the end of his
second term? In Reagan's Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet
Redemption Story, rhetorical scholar Mark LaVoie examines the ways
Reagan negotiated his shift from a vehemently anti-communist
discourse to a rhetoric of guarded optimism about the future of
US-Soviet relations that ultimately revealed a Soviet redemption
narrative. Following Reagan's Soviet rhetoric from his 1947
testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee to his
Farewell Address in 1989, LaVoie considers the President's use of
"Soviet/Nazi analogy," "historical narrative," "reciprocity," and
other rhetorical strategies in creating the narrative. Scholars and
students of rhetoric, history, and international relations will
find this book particularly interesting.
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