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Author:   Andrei Grachev (Political Analyst and Journalist, Former Political Adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780745643465

ISBN 10:   0745643469
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Gorbachev Years: A Chronology vii Preface and Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 1 Preparing the Change 9 Dual-Track Diplomacy 9 The Military-Diplomatic Complex 17 ‘Moles’ in the Corridors of Power 24 Cracks in the Monolith 34 2 Ambitions and Illusions of the ‘New Political Thinking’ 43 Training for Leadership 43 First Exercises in Foreign Policy 52 Building the New Team 58 Summits in Paris and Geneva 62 A ‘Tail’ of Soviet Diplomacy? 66 ‘New Thinking’ or Ideology Revisited? 70 From Philosophy to Politics 75 Reykjavik – ‘the Failed Summit’? 80 ‘New Political Thinking’: Rules and Tools 86 3 Breaking the Ice 93 Untying the Reykjavik ‘Package’ 93 Withdrawing from Afghanistan and Retiring from the ‘Third World’ 100 ‘Abandoning’ Eastern Europe 114 Destroying the Berlin Wall 131 4 Up to the Peak and Down the Slope 163 Gorbachev’s ‘Anti-Fulton’ Speech at the UN 163 1989 – the Year of ‘the Great Turn’ 169 Malta – a Belated Triumph 176 On the Other Bank of the Rubicon 184 The War in the Gulf and Shevardnadze’s Resignation 191 The G7 in London: The Summit of a Last (Lost) Chance 200 5 The Winds of Change 214 Notes 234 Bibliography 257 Index 261

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Written by one of Gorbachev's closest advisers, this is probably the best account published as yet in any language of what went on within the Soviet government as the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union fell apart. No scholar should claim to have a clear view of the events of those years without reading it, but one does not have to be a historian to appreciate Grachev's clear prose and dispassionate insight. A fine read on a very important subject. Jack F. Matlock Jr, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991

“Written by one of Gorbachev’s closest advisers, this is probably the best account published as yet in any language of what went on within the Soviet government as the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union fell apart. No scholar should claim to have a clear view of the events of those years without reading it, but one does not have to be a historian to appreciate Grachev’s clear prose and dispassionate insight. A fine read on a very important subject.” Jack F. Matlock Jr, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991

The ultimate, definitive and conclusive account of one of the most transformative periods in modern history. As we continue to be shaped by the consequences of the critical years examined by Grachev, we shall continue to learn from this masterful book. Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University Andrei Grachev, an important member of Gorbachev's foreign policy team, writes as a participant-observer. His penetrating and well-informed account of the end of the Cold War, as seen from the Soviet side, offers a subtle and persuasive interpretation which will be a valuable corrective to much Western conventional wisdom. Archie Brown, Oxford University

Author Information

Andrei Grachev, the former political adviser and last official spokesman of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, is a Russian political analyst and journalist. He was born in Moscow in 1941 and graduated in History from the Moscow Institute of International relations. After the failure of the August 1991 coup in Moscow, he was appointed assistant and official Spokesman of the President of the USSR until his resignation in December 1991. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and was a Senior Researcher at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Author of several books, he is presently the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of The World Political Forum.

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