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245 00 At Cold War's End :|bU.S. Intelligence on the Soviet Union
       and Eastern Europe 1989-1991 /|c[editor, Benjamin B. 
       Fischer]. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bBarakaldo Books,
       |c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
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520    "The last great drama of the Cold War-the collapse of 
       communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the 
       end of the four-decade-old East-West conflict-unfolded in 
       three acts between 1989 and 1991. Even as the story began,
       Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev already had made the 
       largest opening to the outside world in Russian history. 
       To convince the West, and above all the new administration
       in Washington, of his sincerity, Gorbachev had made major 
       concessions on arms control, withdrawn Soviet troops from 
       Afghanistan, pledged to reduce Soviet ground forces by 
       half a million, and rejected class warfare in favor of 
       "pan-human values" as the basis of Soviet foreign 
       policy... The second act of the drama began in the fall of
       1989 with peaceful revolutions in Eastern and Central 
       Europe (except Romania) and the fall of the Soviet "outer 
       empire." The de facto collapse of the Warsaw Pact (it 
       would formally dissolve itself a year later) plus a new 
       treaty that substantially reduced Soviet superiority in 
       conventional forces in Europe resulted in a stronger 
       Western alliance-so strong that the US could redeploy 
       forces from Europe to the Persian Gulf for use against 
       Iraq... The third and final act closed with the 1991 
       dissolution of the USSR. The centrifugal forces in the 
       "outer empire" stimulated and accelerated those in the 
       "inner empire" as the Soviet republics sought sovereignty 
       and then independence from Moscow. At the same time, 
       Gorbachev's domestic reforms ran into serious trouble, and
       the economy went into a tailspin. Gorbachev's struggle 
       with the old imperial elite in the communist party, the 
       armed forces, and the military-industrial complex 
       culminated in the August 1991 coup, which, when it failed,
       finished off the USSR-and Gorbachev himself...The USSR 
       officially ceased to exist on 31 December."--|cProvided by
       Freading. 
588 0  Publisher metadata. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xHistory
       |vSources. 
650  0 Cold War|xHistory|vSources. 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)|2bisacsh 
651  0 Soviet Union|xForeign relations|y1985-1991|vSources. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xForeign relations|zUnited States|vSources. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|zSoviet Union|vSources. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|y1989-1993. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|zEurope, Eastern
       |vSources. 
651  0 Europe, Eastern|xForeign relations|zUnited States
       |vSources. 
651  0 Europe, Eastern|xForeign relations|y1989- 
655  0 Electronic books. 
700 1  Fischer, Ben B.,|eeditor. 
710 2  Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.).|bHistory 
       Staff,|eauthor. 
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