Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
Author:
Archie Brown - Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College. His book The Gorbachev Factor (Oxford University Press, 1996) won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association of the UK for best political science book of the year and the Alec Nove Prize for best book on Russia, Communism or Post-Communism. His most recent book, as editor and co-author, is The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). His Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2007. Professor Brown, who has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1991, was awarded the CMG in 2005 'for services to UK-Russian relations and to the study of political science and international affairs'.
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10.1080/14682740701197631
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Abstract
The author argues, on the basis of a close examination of archival sources (including Politburo minutes) and the numerous memoirs of leading Soviet political actors, that an interdependent mixture of new leadership, new ideas, and long-standing institutional power in the Soviet Union was primarily responsible for the Cold War ending when it did. While acknowledging that the 'Reagan factor' was important in some ways, he rejects the view that the Reagan administration played the decisively important role in ending the Cold War, and he contests various arguments which have been advanced in the attempt to sustain a Realist interpretation of its ending.
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