A journey through the Cold War a memoir of containment and coexistence /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garthoff, Raymond L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : why this memoir?
  • The Cold War begins : the formative years, 1945-50
  • The view from a think tank : Soviet affairs expert at RAND
  • The thaw : observing the Soviet Union after Stalin
  • CIA and intelligence analysis and estimates
  • "Foreign affairs adviser" at the Pentagon
  • Intelligence excursions in the Soviet Union
  • The espionage game
  • Department of State : the Kennedy years (I)
  • Department of State : the Kennedy years (II)
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis : turning point of the Cold War
  • Department of State : the Johnson years
  • The diplomacy of East-West relations
  • Negotiating on strategic arms : SALT and the ABM Treaty
  • Developing détente in U.S.-Soviet relations
  • Inspecting the American conduct of foreign relations
  • Ambassador to Bulgaria
  • The decline and collapse of the détente of the 1970s
  • Witness to the Cold War endgame : 1980-90
  • Reflections on the Cold War
  • Epilogue : a personal reminiscence.