TY - BOOK AU - Service,Robert TI - The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991 SN - 9781610394994 (HC) AV - D 843 S491e 2015 U1 - 327.09 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - Cold War KW - Diplomatic history KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 KW - Disarmament KW - Guerra fría KW - Política internacional KW - Movimientos anticomunistas KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Soviet Union KW - 1981-1989 KW - 1985-1991 KW - Germany KW - History KW - Unification, 1990 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-518) and index; Introduction -- Ronald Reagan -- Plans for Armageddon -- The Reaganauts -- The American challenge -- Symptoms recognized, cures rejected -- Cracks in the ice : Eastern Europe -- The Soviet quarantine -- NATO and its friends -- World communism and the peace movement -- In the Soviet waiting room -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- The Moscow reform team -- One foot on the accelerator -- To Geneva -- Presenting the Soviet package -- American rejection -- The stalled interaction -- The Strategic Defense Initiative -- The lost summer -- Summit in Reykjavik -- The month of muffled drums -- The Soviet package untied -- The big four -- Getting to know the enemy -- Sticking points -- Grinding out the treaty -- Calls to Western Europe -- Eastern Europe : perplexity and protest -- The leaving of Afghanistan -- Spokes in the wheel -- Reagan's window of departure -- The fifth man -- The other continent : Asia -- Epitaph for world communism -- Revolution in Eastern Europe -- The Malta Summit -- Redrawing the map of Europe -- The new Germany -- Baltic triangle -- The third man breaks loose -- A new world order? -- Endings -- Postscript ER -