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“The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991” by Robert Service is a book that examines the final years of the Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
The book focuses on the events that transpired between 1985 and 1991, a period marked by significant changes in leadership in both the US and the USSR. The rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and his introduction of reforms including glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) are seen as pivotal moments in the book. Service also explores the role of US President Ronald Reagan’s hard-line stance against communism in pressuring the Soviet Union towards change.
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