Chapter 16. Stumbling toward Collapse: Gorbachev’s Final Eighteen Months

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue. Two Treaties, Two Eras 1
4. Chapter 1. First Visit to the USSR: Things Are Not as They Seem 5
5. Chapter 2. Leonid Brezhnev Power and Stagnation 9
6. Chapter 3. Repression and Resistance 22
7. Chapter 4. The Nixon Years 41
8. Chapter 5. A Tale of Two Cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki 63
9. Chapter 6. The Unhappy Presidency of Jimmy Carter 76
10. Chapter 7. Two Crises and an Olympiad 96
11. Chapter 8. Interregnum: Andropov in Power 114
12. Chapter 9. Ronald Reagan’s First Administration 128
13. Chapter 10. Eagle vs. Bear: US and Soviet Approaches to Strategic Arms Control 145
14. Chapter 11. Mikhail Gorbachev 165
15. Chapter 12. Gorbachev Ascendant 184
16. Chapter 13. New Kid on the Block: Gorbachev Emerges in US-Soviet Relations 196
17. Chapter 14. “I Guess I Should Say Michael”: The Turn in US-Soviet Relations 213
18. Chapter 15. 1989: Year of Miracles or Time of Troubles? 242
19. Chapter 16. Stumbling toward Collapse: Gorbachev’s Final Eighteen Months 270
20. Chapter 17. The August Coup 294
21. Chapter 18. Red Star Falling 312
22. Chapter 19. Why Did the USSR Collapse? 322
23. Postscript 339
24. Notes 351
25. Bibliography 383
26. Index 399