„This
book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet
leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each
other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors
through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev
Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from
the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret
verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action
documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of
these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War.
The
summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in
contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document.
Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow’s sense of threat and unleashed
Reagan’s inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any
superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in
Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity,
dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue
between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be
repeated.”
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