Soviet-U.S. Relations : The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

National Security Archive (U.S.)

Subjects (All):

National Security Archive (U.S.).

History.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century--Sources--Databases.

United States.

Soviet Union--History--1985-1991--Sources.

Soviet Union.

National Security Archive (U.S.)--Databases.

Genre:

Databases.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA): U.S.-Soviet Relations: Reagan, Gorbachev, Bush - The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991.

DNSA 52

U.S.-Soviet Relations: Reagan, Gorbachev, Bush

U.S.-Soviet Relations: End of the Cold War

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : Proquest Information and Learning Co. ; [Washington, D.C.] : National Security Archive [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 is a collection of 1,911 documents, most of them recently declassified in the United States and Russia, documenting the transformation of U.S.-USSR relations in the period of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. These documents illuminate the dynamics of superpower relations at the end of the Cold War, and the transformation of the international system in the late 1980s. The collection features a complete series of U.S.-Soviet summit transcripts from Geneva 1985 through Madrid 1991, between Gorbachev and U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as well as memoranda of numerous phone calls between Bush and the Soviet leader, and Reagan and Gorbachev's letters to each other. From early exchanges of letters between Reagan and Gorbachev after the latter came to power in March 1985 to the last phone call with Bush on December 31, 1991, these documents show the development of a productive relationship based on trust and a mutual interest in reversing the arms race, which provided a basis for spectacular achievements across the entire spectrum of foreign policy issues for both countries and even domestic reform in the USSR.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on 1.12.19).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.