soviet union

This book describes the Cuban missile crisis, explaining the thoughts and reactions of President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Previously published articles discussing current issues and social trends in the Soviet Union, focusing on reforms initiated by Soviet leader Gorbachev and foreign policy decisions involving arms control agreements.

Contains forty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Cold War, followed by two opposing opinions.

Explores why the Cold War ended, including such reasons as the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, economic problems, and the increase in nuclear weaponry worldwide.

Explores the rivalry and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union stemming from their differing ideologies, and discusses the resulting events during the decade after World War II.

Examines the events preceding, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles there.

Reprints twenty-four significant speeches of the Cold War era, including selections by Winston Churchill, Mao Tse-tung, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and others in which they discuss the fear of communist aggression, coercion and crisis, the threat of nuclear war, the struggle for peace, and the Berlin Wall.