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Examines how Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987, speech in West Berlin helped end the Cold War, describing the events leading up to the speech as well as its aftermath and lasting impact on world power.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the 1945 Yalta Conference, to the admission of sixteen new members to the United Nations on December 14, 1955.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the Soviet crackdown on Moscow's Helsinki Watch Group in February-March 1977, to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Includes a review of post-1991 developments.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from Khrushchev's denoucement of the Stalinist regime in 1956, to the formation of a Soviet citizen group to investigate political abuses of psychiatry in 1977.

The Russian Revolution depicts how this movement was driven by the new ideas and strong leadership of Vladimir Lenin, and was sparked by the hope for a better way of life.

"Recounts the events of Reagan's historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, examining the importance of Reagan's speech at Moscow State University that offered a new vision of the future to the Soviet people"--Provided by publisher.

"In 1946 . . . linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage--the atomic bomb"--Provided by publisher.

Draws on documents and interviews to detail the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and discuss its influence on the Cold War as well as politics in the early twenty-first century.

Miranda Regent can't believe she's one of six kids training for the world's first-ever mission to Mars, but when the training base is viciously attacked, it looks like Miranda was the intended target.

"Studies in international security and arms control." Story of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.