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Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Presents accounts, from both the United States and the Soviet Union, of meetings held between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, chronicling their communications regarding foreign policy during the Cold War, and includes the full record of the first Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.

Contains nineteen essays that provide information about the Cold War, discussing the origins and early years of the conflict, Cold War hot spots, and the end of American support for detente and the last years of the Soviet Union. Includes personal reflections on the Cold War.

Profile key figures in the Cold War, its causes, conflict, resolution, and aftermath.

Discusses the principal causes and events of the Cold War, the period between 1945 to 1991 when the United States and the Soviet Union kept each other in check through mutual fear and distrust, and considers what the outcome might have been had different decisions been made at crucial points during this time.

Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

Discusses the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that led to the Cold War, the actions of political leaders, the U.S.-Soviet summits on arms reduction, the revolutions in Eastern Europe against Soviet domination that led to the end of the Cold War, and the new, friendlier relationship between Russia and the United States.

Discusses the origins of the Cold War and its effects on Europe, Asia, and the United States, nuclear threats, detente, and the future of the relationship between Russia and the United States.