1st Edition

Gorbachev and Reagan The Last Superpower Summits. Conversations that Ended the Cold War

Edited By Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas S. Blanton Copyright 2020
532 Pages
by Central European University Press

This book is the culmination of twenty years of research in which the editors gathered thousands of pages documenting the most important conversations of the late Cold War. Every word Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said to each other in their five superpower summits from 1985 to 1988 is included in this volume. The editors argue in their contextual essays and detailed notes that these... Read more
Preface, Main Actors, Chronology of Events, Chapter 1 THE GENEVA SUMMIT, 1985, Chapter 2: THE REYKJAVIK SUMMIT, 1986, Chapter 3 THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT, 1987, Chapter 4 THE MOSCOW SUMMIT, 1988, Chapter 5 THE GOVERNORS ISLAND , SUMMIT, 1988, Selected Bibliography, Index

Biography

Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Research Fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and since 2001 the director of the Archive's Russia programs.

Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.