General Information

Author/Creator

Cohen, Stephen F.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Norton, c1985.

Physical Description

160 p. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Subject

United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Stephen F. Cohen.

Note

Includes index.

Content

I. American perceptions and Soviet realities. Sovietophobia: our other Soviet problem -- The Soviet system: crisis or stability? -- The American media and the Soviet Union -- Media leaderology -- II. From Stalin to Gorbachev. Stalin's legacy -- Khrushchev and reform from above -- Brezhnev and the reign of conservatism -- Andropov's "reform" -- Why there was no Andropov era -- Chernenko and the Stalin generation's last stand -- The lost Soviet reform -- Waiting for Gorbachev -- III. Victims and dissidents. Survivors of the other Holocaust -- Child of the revolution -- The crisis of liberal dissent -- Roy Medvedev -- IV. Cold War axis and nuclear peril. The legacy of World War II -- Our cold warriors and theirs -- The specter of military communism -- Cold War mysteries -- The abolition of American diplomacy -- Their cold warriors and ours -- The failure of the hard line -- A program for Détente.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0393019810

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	327.73047 COH		General Stacks	-

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