The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 the age of madness

The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 the age of madnessOn 26 December, 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the standoff between the two superpowers after

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