num_pages: 1075
description: A one-volume joint documentary publication presenting the formerly secret record of how the United States and Soviet Union moved from Cold War to détente during 1969–1972. Published side-by side are U.S. and Soviet accounts of meetings between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, the so-called Kissinger-Dobrynin confidential channel, related documents, and the full Soviet and U.S. record of the first Moscow Summit between President Richard Nixon and Soviet Secretary General Lenoid Brezhnev. The Soviet documents are being released in the volume for the first time anywhere. Scholars, journalists, and the public have the unique opportunity to compare independent accounts, the Soviet and U.S., of a crucial foreign policy dialogue and process. An indispensable source for those who wish to understand firsthand through the original documents the dynamic relationship between the two Cold War superpowers at a critical point in their history.  
language: English
title: Soviet–American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969-1972
publisher: United States Department of State