The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War
"Promises to be the authoritative record of U.S.-Soviet relations in the 1980s, and of the convulsions that put an end to the Cold War." —Choice"Garthoff has done it again, bringing us a worthy sequel to his grand account of the years of Soviet-American détente and confrontation.The Great Transitionwill serve for a long time to come as a towering, authoritative sourcebook for anyone who would begin to understand the great historical convulsion that put an end to the Cold War." —Michael R. Beschloss, Auhtor ofThe Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963"This book becomes at once the best single starting point for every one who wants to understand better the extraordinary story of the ending of the Cold War, from 1981 through 1991. Garthoff builds on a life time of experience and study, and also on the running start of his masterwork on the 197s,Détente and Confrontation. A great subject has found the best possible student." —McGeorge Bundy, Former Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Carnegie Corporation of New York