LibGuides: NEH Institute: U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1975-1985

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These article databases have the most relevant material related to the Institute topic of United States-Russian/Soviet relations.

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of primary source documents, Empire Online covers the rise and fall of European empires from 1500 CE through the twentieth century.
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JSTOR contains the full-text of articles from core journals in several academic disciplines, including history. Coverage is from each journal's first issue and continues through 2-5 years from the most recently published issues.

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Project Muse offers full-text articles from journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. Full-text coverage for each journal is usually from the mid-90s through the present.

U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1975-1985

Bibliography

Primary Sources

"Resolution of the Secretariat of CC of CPSU, On Measures for Stopping Criminal Activities of Orlov, Ginsburg, Rudenko, and Ventslova," 20 January 1977.

"Extract from Protocol 206 of the CC CPSU Politburo on Amnesty International," 25 June 1980.

Jimmy Carter, "United States Naval Academy Address at the Commencement Exercise," 7 June 1978.

Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire Speech," 8 March 1983.

Ronald Reagan, "Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations," 16 January 1984.

Secondary Sources

The American Mission and the Evil Empire : The Crusade for a Free Russia since 1881 by David S. Foglesong
Call Number: E 183.8.S65 F64 2007 (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 2007
David Foglesong tells the fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s. He analyzes the involvement of journalists, political activists, propagandists, missionaries, diplomats, engineers, and others in this grand crusade, paying special attention to the influence of religious beliefs on Americans' sense of duty to emancipate, convert, or reform Russia.
The Cold War's Last Battlefield : Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America by Edward Lynch
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2011
An engaging insider's account by a member of President Reagan's Central America policy team.
Detente and Confrontation : American-Soviet Relations From Nixon to Reagan by Raymond L. Garthoff
Call Number: E 183.8.S65 G37 1985 (3rd Floor)
ISBN: 9780815730439
Publication Date: 1985
For the Soul of Mankind : The United States, Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
Call Number: E 183.8.S65 L44 2007 (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 2007
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?
Jimmy Carter : Foreign Policy and Post-Presidental Years by Herbert D. Rosenbaum (Editor); Alexej Ugrinsky (Editor)
Call Number: E 873 .J56 1994 (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 1993
President Jimmy Carter, like all his predecessors since World War II, experienced the blurring of lines between foreign and domestic politics while, paradoxically, the contrasts between those lines became more pronounced. In nearly every arena of domestic and foreign policy, he had to deal with the intrusion of the politics of both spheres. The major concerns of the Carter foreign policy experience and, consequently, of the papers included in the volume were staffing the foreign policy apparatus, shifting human rights to the forefront of basic policy considerations, attempting to create peaceful conditions in the Middle East, contributing to the emergence of underdeveloped countries, lessening Cold War tensions, ending the negotiations over the Panama Canal, and working to free the hostages in Iran.
The Triumph of Improvisation : Gobachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2014
In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation, improvisation, and engagement by individuals in positions of power ended the specter of a nuclear holocaust. Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, George H. W. Bush, and a host of other actors engaged with adversaries and adapted to a rapidly changing international environment and information age in which global capitalism recovered as command economies failed.

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