{"product_id":"gorbachevs-gamble-9780745643465","title":"Gorbachevs Gamble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGorbachev's Gamble\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects of Gorbachev's perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows that the radical transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev years was an integral part of an ambitious project of internal democratic reform and of the historic opening of Soviet society to the outside world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Grachev explains the motives and the intentions of the initiators of this project and describes their hopes and their illusions. He recounts the story of the internal debates and struggles in the Kremlin and behind-the-scene decisions that led to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the Warsaw Pact and eventually the demise of the Soviet Union itself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book is based on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union including Gorbachev, personal notes and diaries of their ass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack F. Matlock Jr\u003c\/b\u003e, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gorbachev Years: A Chronology vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Preparing the Change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDual-Track Diplomacy 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Military-Diplomatic Complex 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Moles’ in the Corridors of Power 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCracks in the Monolith 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Ambitions and Illusions of the ‘New Political Thinking’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraining for Leadership 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst Exercises in Foreign Policy 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding the New Team 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummits in Paris and Geneva 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA ‘Tail’ of Soviet Diplomacy? 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘New Thinking’ or Ideology Revisited? 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Philosophy to Politics 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReykjavik – ‘the Failed Summit’? 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘New Political Thinking’: Rules and Tools 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Breaking the Ice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntying the Reykjavik ‘Package’ 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithdrawing from Afghanistan and Retiring from the ‘Third World’ 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Abandoning’ Eastern Europe 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDestroying the Berlin Wall 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Up to the Peak and Down the Slope \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGorbachev’s ‘Anti-Fulton’ Speech at the UN 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1989 – the Year of ‘the Great Turn’ 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMalta – a Belated Triumph 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Other Bank of the Rubicon 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe War in the Gulf and Shevardnadze’s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResignation 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe G7 in London: The Summit of a Last (Lost) Chance 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Winds of Change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e214\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865705460055,"sku":"9780745643465","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745643465.jpg?v=1722275190","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gorbachevs-gamble-9780745643465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}