Preface: two treaties, two eras -- First visit to the USSR: things are not as they seem -- Leonid Brezhnev: power and stagnation -- Repression and resistance -- The Nixon years -- A tale of two cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki -- The unhappy presidency of Jimmy Carter -- Two cri…
Cover -- Contents -- Prologue: Two Treaties, Two Eras -- Chapter 1: First Visit to the USSR: Things Are Not as They Seem -- Chapter 2: Leonid Brezhnev: Power and Stagnation -- Chapter 3: Repression and Resistance -- Chapter 4: The Nixon Years -- Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Cities: …
In From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs-many in Russian-as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.
"When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States. Less than twenty years later the Soviet Union had collapsed, confounding exp…