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This 3 page paper discusses the book "Ending the Cold War" by Herrmann and Lebow, and argues that credit for ending this decades-long standoff goes to Mikhail Gorbachev. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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startling events in world history: the sudden end of the Cold War and the concomitant collapse of the Soviet Union and their withdrawal from Eastern Europe. There are many factors
involved here, not all of them obvious. This paper considers some of these factors and argues that it was Mikhail Gorbachev who was solely responsible for ending this decades-long war
of nerves. Discussion Among the things listed as being important in ending the Cold War perhaps the most significant is the fact that overall, things in both the Soviet Union
and the United States had changed dramatically since the 1950s. In the U.S.S.R., Stalin was gone and so was the "cult of personality" that he had exemplified; plus the nation
had gone through numerous political shifts: the "short-lived liberalization under Khrushchev, stabilization and then stagnation under Brezhnev, and a de facto interregnum under his successors" (Herrmann and Lebow). The
United States had endured an endless, pointless war in Vietnam that tore the country apart, and the Soviet Union had mounted an unsuccessful invasion of Afghanistan (Herrmann and Lebow). The
two nations had gone head-to-head in the Cuban missile crisis, and discovered that both were terrified of starting a nuclear conflict; this realization spurred efforts to find a way of
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and Lebow). The Soviet satellite nations were testing the boundaries, and
the U.S.S.R. suddenly faced bids for liberalization from countries like Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany (Herrmann and Lebow). The Roman Catholic Church in Poland was defying Moscow and Solidarity
got its start in the shipyards at Gdansk (Herrmann and Lebow). Both countries, in short, were far from what they had been in the 1950s, and although it would take
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