TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fischer,Beth A.
TI  - The Reagan reversal: foreign policy and the end of the cold war 
SN  - 9780826273123
AV  - E876 .R434 2000
PY  - 2000///, 1997
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Reagan, Ronald.
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - It is often assumed that Ronald Reagan's administration was reactive in bringing about the end of the cold war, that it was Mikhail Gorbachev's "new thinking" and congenial personality that led the administration to abandon its hard-line approach toward Moscow. In The Reagan Reversal, now available in paperback, Beth A. Fischer convincingly demonstrates that President Reagan actually began seeking a rapprochement with the Kremlin fifteen months before Gorbachev took office. She shows that Reagan, known for his long-standing antipathy toward communism, suddenly began calling for "dialogue, cooperation, and understanding" between the superpowers. This well-written and concise study challenges the conventional wisdom about the president himself and reveals that Reagan was, at times, the driving force behind United States-Soviet policy
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