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Human Factor : Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
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"A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly "... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative." -- Christopher Hill, Cold War History "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially di cult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly "... delivers its promises in spades ... What The Human Factor does do and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- History of War "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "This very important, detailed and clearly-written account of the 'Gorbachev Period' of Soviet political history certainly deserved to win last year's London Pushkin House Book Prize for what the judges considered to be the most significant recently published English language work about Russia ... Archie Brown makes a convincing case." -- Martin Dewhirst, East-West Review "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly "... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative." -- Christopher Hill, Cold War History "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "The Human Factor is in many respects the culmination of Archie Brown's long and distinguished career as a scholar and writer. It is full of a lifetime's achievement of wisdom and thought." -- Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution, Washington DC"Brown's book is a superb achievement, a balanced, judicious and authoritative account of a foundation event of our contemporary world" -- Christopher Read, Diplomacy and Statecraft"This very important, detailed and clearly-written account of the 'Gorbachev Period' of Soviet political history certainly deserved to win last year's London Pushkin House Book Prize for what the judges considered to be the most significant recently published English language work about Russia ... Archie Brown makes a convincing case." -- Martin Dewhirst, East-West Review"A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times"A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times"Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator"It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review"What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History"Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly"... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative." -- Christopher Hill, Cold War History"...a thought-provoking book...I highly recommend this book to readers. Brown is right to highlight the human factor in the ending of the Cold War...the sharpness of many of Browns insights, condensed with commendable crispness in this 500-page [make the book an], eminently readable foray into a highly contentious subject." -- Sergey Radchenko, Slavic Review"The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter"Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.)"Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times"Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "The Human Factor is in many respects the culmination of Archie Brown''s long and distinguished career as a scholar and writer. It is full of a lifetime''s achievement of wisdom and thought." -- Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution, Washington DC "Brown''s book is a superb achievement, a balanced, judicious and authoritative account of a foundation event of our contemporary world" -- Christopher Read, Diplomacy and Statecraft "This very important, detailed and clearly-written account of the ''Gorbachev Period'' of Soviet political history certainly deserved to win last year''s London Pushkin House Book Prize for what the judges considered to be the most significant recently published English language work about Russia ... Archie Brown makes a convincing case." -- Martin Dewhirst, East-West Review "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown''s study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders'' interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others." -- William Taubman, The Political Quarterly "... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative." -- Christopher Hill, Cold War History "...a thought-provoking book...I highly recommend this book to readers. Brown is right to highlight the human factor in the ending of the Cold War...the sharpness of many of Browns insights, condensed with commendable crispness in this 500-page [make the book an], eminently readable foray into a highly contentious subject." -- Sergey Radchenko, Slavic Review "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world''s greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, ''Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.'' Brown''s judgment should be a motto on every Western leader''s desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the ''human factor'' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent, "A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book." -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times "A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." -- Tony Barber, The Financial Times "Lucidly written and scholarly." -- The Spectator "It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that." -- Christopher Coker, Literary Review "What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- All About History "... delivers its promises in spades ... What The Human Factor does do and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground." -- History of War "The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour." -- SCRSS Newsletter "Archie Brown, arguably the world's greatest authority on late-Soviet Russia, mounts a scrupulously detailed account of the three major players, their key roles, and those of senior advisors around them. However, 'Mutual trust painstakingly gained, and then lost, is especially difficult to re-establish.' Brown's judgment should be a motto on every Western leader's desk." -- Gary Hart, United States Senator (Ret.) "Thanks to Archie Brown, world-renowned author of several outstanding books on Mikhail Gorbachev, we now have his meticulous, definitive account of how Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher all contributed mightily to ending the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times "Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose, and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the 'human factor' underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher." - Bridget Kendall, Former BBC Diplomatic, Moscow, and Washington Correspondent
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Table Of Content
Preface 1. The Reality of the Cold War 2. Mikhail Gorbachev: from Communist reformer to gravedigger of Communism? 3. Ronald Reagan: from Cold Warrior to Peacemonger? 4. Margaret Thatcher: 'agent of influence'? 5. Breaking the ice (1985-86) 6. Building trust (1987) 7. The End of the Ideological Divide (1988) 8. The End of the Cold War (1989) 9. The Immediate Consequences (1990-91) 10. Aftermath (1992 to the present day)
Synopsis
In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies?The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of the decade, East-West relations had been utterly transformed, with most of the dividing lines - including the division of Europe - removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part of that process of change. More surprising was Thatcher's role. Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev (beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting Gorbachev in Washington as "a man to do business with", she became, in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, "an agent of influence in both directions"., In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies? The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of the decade, East-West relations had been utterly transformed, with most of the dividing lines - including the division of Europe - removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part of that process of change. More surprising was Thatcher's role. Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev (beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting Gorbachev in Washington as 'a man to do business with', she became, in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, 'an agent of influence in both directions'., In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were thevalues and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishmentor challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies?The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By the end of the decade, East-West relations had beenutterly transformed, with most of the dividing lines - including the division of Europe - removed. Engagement between Gorbachev and Reagan was a crucial part of that process of change. More surprisingwas Thatcher's role. Regarded by Reagan as his ideological and political soulmate, she formed also a strong and supportive relationship with Gorbachev (beginning three months before he came to power). Promoting Gorbachev in Washington as 'a man to do business with', she became, in the words of her foreign policy adviser Sir Percy Cradock, 'an agent of influence in both directions'., The Human Factor focuses on the main figures involved in the Cold War--Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher--examining them both in their own right and as proxies for larger economic, social, and political forces at play in their respective countries.
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