“A Review of: Once Again: How the Cold War Ended and Why the Soviet Union Collapsed”

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Notes

¹Program on International Policy Attitudes. “Americans and Iraq on the Eve of the Presidential Election,” October 28, 2004, p. 6.

²M. Twain and C. D. udley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day. (New York: The Library of America) p. 24.

³T. C. Reed. At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War. (New York: Presidio Press 2004) p. 4.

⁴Ibid. p. 22.

⁵Ibid.

⁶V. Zubok and C. Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996) p. 74.

⁷H. Kissinger. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994 p. 487.

⁸J. Erickson, Review of book by W. S. Dunn, Jr., Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943. The Journal of Military History, 62, 3 (July 1998) p. 665.

⁹Reed, p. 33.

¹⁰Ibid. p. 231.

¹¹Ibid. p. 275.

¹²Ibid. p. 265.

¹³Ibid. p. 227.

¹⁴Ibid. pp. 236–237.

¹⁵Ibid. p. 240.

¹⁶Ibid.

¹⁷Ibid. p. 256.

¹⁸S. J. Zaloga. The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945–2000. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002) pp. 205–211.

¹⁹M. Gorbachev. Memoirs. (New York: Doubleday, 1996) p. 407.

²⁰Reed. p. 269.

²¹Ibid.

²²Ibid.

²³S. Kettmann. “Soviets Burned By CIA Hackers?” Wired News (www.wired.com), March 26, 2004.

²⁴G. E. Weir and W. J. Boyne. Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War. (New York: Basic Books, 2003) pp. 202–210.

²⁵Zaloga, p. 198.

²⁶Ibid, p. 197.

²⁷B. A. Fischer. The Reagan Reversal. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997) p. 130.

²⁸Reed, p. 265.

²⁹Ibid. p. 272.

³⁰F. Fitzgerald. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000) p. 467.

³¹O. Seliktar. Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004) p. 158.

³²Fitzgerald, p. 467.

³³V. Israelyan. On the Battlefields of the Cold War. (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2003) p. 24.

³⁴Ibid. p.25.

³⁵Ibid. p.51

³⁶Ibid. p. 101.

³⁷Ibid. p. xvii.

³⁸Ibid. p. 87.

³⁹Ibid. p. 69.

⁴⁰Ibid. p. 240.

⁴¹Ibid. p. 284.

⁴²R. D. English. Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

⁴³Israelyan, p. 369.

⁴⁴Ibid. p. 378.

⁴⁵Ibid. p. 348.

⁴⁶Ibid. p. 350.

⁴⁷Ibid. p. 351.

⁴⁸J. F. Matlock, Jr. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. (New York: Random House, 2004) p. 61.

⁴⁹Ibid.

⁵⁰Ibid. p. xiii.

⁵¹Ibid. p. 85.

⁵²Ibid. p. xiii.

⁵³Ibid. p. 89.

⁵⁴Ibid. p. 113.

⁵⁵Ibid. p. 114.

⁵⁶Ibid. p. xiii.

⁵⁷Ibid.

⁵⁸R. L. Garthoff. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1994) p. 79.

⁵⁹Ibid. pp. 80–81.

⁶⁰M. Evangelista. Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999) p. 241.

⁶¹Ibid. p. 389.

⁶²G. Kennan. “The GOP Won the Cold War? Ridiculous.” New York Times, October 28, 1992.

⁶³Matlock, p. 50.

⁶⁴Fischer, p. 130.

⁶⁵Fischer, p. 137.

⁶⁶Ibid. pp. 136–137.

⁶⁷Matlock, p, 78.

⁶⁸Ibid.

⁶⁹Fischer, p. 142.

⁷⁰Matlock, p. 50.

⁷¹The preceding two paragraphs rely on information found in Chapter 3 of S. I. Schwartz ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998). See also W. C. Uhler, “A Nuclear Accounting,” The Nation, July 13, 1998. In addition to Atomic Audit, Matlock's writing about strategic defense issues would have profited from a reading of Matthew Evangelista's book, Innovation and the Arms Race; Nikolai Sokov's book, Russian Strategic Modernization; and Steven J. Zaloga's book, The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword.

⁷²Matlock, p. 157.

⁷³Ibid.

⁷⁴Ibid. p. 169.

⁷⁵Ibid.

⁷⁶Ibid. p. 162.

⁷⁷Ibid. p. 232.

⁷⁸Ibid. p. 221.

⁷⁹Ibid. p. 222.

⁸⁰Ibid. p. 241.

⁸¹K. Payne, The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001) p. 94.

⁸²Matlock, p. 249.

⁸³Gorbachev, p. 419.

⁸⁴Matlock, p. 251.

⁸⁵A. Chernyaev. My Six Years with Gorbachev. (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2000) p. 97.

⁸⁶Gorbachev, p. 420. Moreover, although Reagan's public relations team persuaded the American media, and thus the people, that Reagan's defense of SDI was principled and heroic, Reagan actually reproached Gorbachev (at the end of the summit) by claiming: “You planned from the start to come here and put me in this position!” Ibid. p. 419

⁸⁷English, p. 218

⁸⁸Ibid, p. 223.

⁸⁹Matlock, p. xv.

⁹⁰Fitzgerald, p. 410.

⁹¹Matlock, p. 254

⁹²S. Sternthal, Gorbachev's Reforms: De-Stalinization Through Demilitarization. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997) p. 88.

⁹³Ibid.

⁹⁴Chernyaev, p. 144.

⁹⁵Gorbachev, p. 165.

⁹⁶Matlock, p. 144.

⁹⁷Matlock, p. 317.

⁹⁸Seliktar, p. 204.

⁹⁹Ibid.

¹⁰⁰Ibid. p. 115.

¹⁰¹Ibid. p. 207.

¹⁰²Ibid. p. 211.

¹⁰³Ibid.

¹⁰⁴Matlock, p. 327.

¹⁰⁵Ibid. p. 328.