The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

Ronald Reagan

Plans for Armageddon

The Reaganauts

The American challenge

Symptoms recognized, cures rejected

Cracks in the ice : Eastern Europe

The Soviet quarantine

NATO and its friends

World communism and the peace movement

In the Soviet waiting room

Mikhail Gorbachev

The Moscow reform team

One foot on the accelerator

To Geneva

Presenting the Soviet package

American rejection

The stalled interaction

The Strategic Defense Initiative

The lost summer

Summit in Reykjavik

The month of muffled drums

The Soviet package untied

The big four

Getting to know the enemy

Sticking points

Grinding out the treaty

Calls to Western Europe

Eastern Europe : perplexity and protest

The leaving of Afghanistan

Spokes in the wheel

Reagan's window of departure

The fifth man

The other continent : Asia

Epitaph for world communism

Revolution in Eastern Europe

The Malta Summit

Redrawing the map of Europe

The new Germany

Baltic triangle

The third man breaks loose

A new world order?

Endings

Postscript.