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Russia and America: From Rivalry to Reconciliation » Read Now
by George Ginsburgs, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Oles M. Smolansky. 356 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...International Relations at Lehigh...Academy of the Russian Ministry for...extensively on U.S. foreign policy...the first--let us, for the sake...the former U.S. ambassador...
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Old Myths and New Realities in United States-Soviet Relations » Read Now
by Donald R. Kelley, Hoyt Purvis. 181 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This volume assembles some of the most experienced observers and analysts of United States-Soviet relations to assess the dramatic events of the last few years in the Soviet bloc and probe the broader questions of how these events impact the relationship between the two powers. Offering a...
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This volume assembles some of the most experienced observers and analysts of United States-Soviet relations to assess the dramatic events of the last few years in the Soviet bloc and probe the broader questions of how these events impact the relationship between the two powers. Offering a comprehensive review of this relationship from a variety of perspectives, this study deals with the impact of Gorbachev's reforms at home on Soviet foreign policy, Soviet policy toward the third world, the European perspective on changing superpower relations, and Soviet foreign policy from the perspective of American and British journalists.
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The United States and Russia, in Policy Review » Read Now
by James M. Goldgeier. 8 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...initially calling Russia a threat to U.S. interests, the start...decade of Americas relations with post-Soviet...of the problem in U.S.-Russian relations, one needs to...
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The United States and the USSR in a Changing World: Soviet and American Perspectives » Read Now
by Andrei G. Bochkarev, Don L. Mansfield. 412 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...important for us to understand...bilateral Soviet-U.S. relationship. To a surprising...also reminds us that the...colored the relationship were a barrier...normalize...
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Counterrevolution: U.S. Foreign Policy (Chap. 1 "Russia/Soviet Union: 1917-1946" and Chap. 7 "Soviet Union: 1946-Early 1990") » Read Now
by Edward Boorstein, Regula Boorstein. 340 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A carefully researched, original examination of the central focus of American foreign policy since 1917 with specific attention to the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Central and Southern Africa to show that U.S. government policy must change so as to help end poverty, instability, exploitation and aggression.
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What Should America Do? The United States Retains a Substantial Influence in Russia and Can Have a Signficant Impact on Economic and Political Reform There, in World and I » Read Now
by Tom Bjorkman. 6 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...single most important factor in producing a U.S.-Russia relationship in which common interests and international...on internal issues, but the importance of the U.S...
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China and Russia Align against U.S., in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Kenneth R. Timmerman. 3 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...did defeat them, but they caused us a lot of trouble before they were...interests of the United States to split Russia and China apart. "We should do...attack actually...
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The U.S. and Russia after Iraq, in Policy Review » Read Now
by Paul J. Saunders. 18 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...intelligence services misled us -- or we deluded ourselves...ability and readiness to resist" U.S. forces. Notwithstanding his...ties to the F S B and his close...
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Russia's American Colony » Read Now
by S. Frederick Starr. 430 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Bolkhovitinov argues, it might have developed its relations in America more extensively. But after...R. Gibson, in his essay on the sale of Russian America to the United...
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Changes ahead for U.S.-Russian Relations, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Jamie Dettmer. 1 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...up anyway irritating the Europeans, who want us to be all cute with the Russians, and if Moscow wont play ball, then we are going...the missile-shield proposal. The...
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Years of Estrangement: American Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941 » Read Now
by Thomas R. Maddux. 238 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...market for U.S. goods emerged...the awakened Russian people," predicted...on American relations with Japan...would regard us as merely...Japanese relations, for...
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Aid to Russia, 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War » Read Now
by George C. Herring Jr. 365 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the wartime relationship, became an...quality" than Russian-made weapons...by which U.S. "monopolists...weakened us but further...American relations during and...evolution...
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The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 » Read Now
by Ronald E. Powaski. 356 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

For half of the twentieth century, the Cold War gripped the world. International relations everywhere--and domestic policy in scores of nations--pivoted around this central point, the American-Soviet rivalry. Even today, much of the world's diplomacy grapples with chaos created by the Cold War's...
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For half of the twentieth century, the Cold War gripped the world. International relations everywhere--and domestic policy in scores of nations--pivoted around this central point, the American-Soviet rivalry. Even today, much of the world's diplomacy grapples with chaos created by the Cold War's sudden disappearance. Here indeed is a subject that defies easy understanding. Now comes a definitive account, a startlingly fresh, clear eyed, comprehensive history of our century's longest struggle. In The Cold War, Ronald E. Powaski offers a new perspective on the great rivalry, even as he provides a coherent, concise narrative. He wastes no time in challenging the reader to think of the Cold War in new ways, arguing that the roots of the conflict are centuries old, going back to Czarist Russia and to the very infancy of the American nation. He shows that both Russia and America were expansionist nations with messianic complexes, and the people of both nations believed they possessed a unique mission in history. Except for a brief interval in 1917, Americans perceived the Russian government (whether Czarist or Bolshevik) as despotic; Russians saw the United States as conspiring to prevent it from reaching its place in the sun. U.S. military intervention in Russia's civil war, with the aim of overthrowing Lenin's upstart regime, entrenched Moscow's fears. Soviet American relations, difficult before World War II--when both nations were relatively weak militarily and isolated from world affairs--escalated dramatically after both nations emerged as the world's major military powers. Powaski paints a portrait of the spiraling tensions with stark clarity, as each new development added to the rivalry: the Marshall Plan, the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, the Berlin blockade, the formation of NATO, the first Soviet nuclear test. In this atmosphere, Truman found it easy to believe that the Communist victory in China and the Korean War were products of Soviet expansionism. He and his successors extended their own web of mutual defense treaties, covert actions, and military interventions across the globe--from the Caribbean to the Middle East and, finally to Southeast Asia, where containment famously foundered in the bog of Vietnam. Powaski skillfully highlights the domestic politics, diplomatic maneuvers, and even psychological factors as he untangles the knot that bound the two superpowers together in conflict. From the nuclear arms race, to the impact of U.S. recognition of China on detente, to Brezhnev's inflexible persistence in competing with America everywhere, he casts new light on familiar topics. Always judicious in his assessments, Powaski gives due credit to Reagan and especially Bush in facilitating the Soviet collapse, but also notes that internal economic failure, not outside pressure, proved decisive in the Communist failure. Perhaps most important, he offers a clear eyed assessment of the lasting distortions the struggle wrought upon American institutions, raising questions about whether anyone really won the Cold War. With clarity, fairness, and insight, he offers the definitive account of our century's longest international rivalry.
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Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the "Finnish Solution" » Read Now
by Jussi M. Hanhimaki. 286 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...potentially explosive relationship with the Soviet...Union. Although U.S. policymakers...satisfying for us . . . our affair...the face of Russian demands. 20...impressed...
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War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink » Read Now
by Peter Vincent Pry. 344 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Why do American intelligence officials maintain fallout shelters and private contingency plans to evacuate their families in the event of a Russian nuclear strike--even in today's post-Cold War era of U.S.-Russian partnership? The frightening answer lies within the pages of War Scare, a terrifying...
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Why do American intelligence officials maintain fallout shelters and private contingency plans to evacuate their families in the event of a Russian nuclear strike--even in today's post-Cold War era of U.S.-Russian partnership? The frightening answer lies within the pages of War Scare, a terrifying assessment of the prospect for nuclear holocaust in our day. Written by Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA military analyst, War Scare provides a history of our country's little-known brushes with nuclear war and warns that, contrary to popular opinion and the assurances of our political leaders, the possibility of a Russian attack still exists. Nuclear deterrence has been the foundation of Western security for the last 50 years, but since the end of the Cold War, Russian military doctrine has become more destabilizing, and much more dangerous, than is commonly believed.
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The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War » Read Now
by Raymond L. Garthoff. 834 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The decade from 1981 through 1991 saw the remarkable transition from a renewed U.S. confrontation with the Soviet Union to the end of communist rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. This turning point is now history, history that is the foundation for what has been occurring between...
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The decade from 1981 through 1991 saw the remarkable transition from a renewed U.S. confrontation with the Soviet Union to the end of communist rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. This turning point is now history, history that is the foundation for what has been occurring between the United States and Russia and for what will evolve. In this book, one of America's foremost specialists on Soviet affairs provides a major contribution to our understanding of U.S.-Soviet relations. Raymond L. Garthoff picks up this story from his earlier account of the rise and fall of the detente of the 1970s. Covering the period of 1969 through 1980, Detente and Confrontation (first published by Brookings in 1985) studied American policy toward the Soviet Union under the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations, and Soviet policy toward the United States. This new book turns to the final chapter of American relations with the Soviet Union in the succeeding decade, 1981-1991, bringing to an end boththe final period of American-Soviet relations and the story of the Cold War. The Great Transition features a detailed account of relations during the Reagan and Bush administrations and the Soviet leadership from the end of Brezhnev's rule through the revolutionary transformation of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev. Through his unusual access to many formerly secret Soviet documents, declassified American documents, and interviews with key American and Soviet officials, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Garthoff provides a rare, authoritative analysis of recent events. He examines the turn from renewed confrontation in the early 1980s to a new detente in the late 1980s in the interaction of theUnited States and the Soviet Union. The interrelationships of domestic factors and foreign and security policies in both countries are examined, as are the involvements of both powers with other countries around the world that in
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