... Moscow exchange students Moscow State University ...

... Conceptual Art conceptualism Moscow conceptualism contemporary art contemporaneity ...

... Afghanistan Jimmy Carter Zbigniew Brzezinski Moscow Olympics 1980 Solidarity ...

... As a nineteen-year-old student, the author made his first visit to the USSR. The chapter describes a brief detention at the Soviet border over a minor mistake in filling out an entry form, first impressions on arriving in Moscow, and the intense interest of their young Soviet guides—once older...

... Aldrich Ames Vitaliy Yurchenko bugged US embassy in Moscow Reykjavik meeting INF Treaty ...

... This chapter covers Carter’s initial angry exchanges with Brezhnev, SALT II negotiations, divisions within the administration over policy toward Moscow, and the Vienna summit held in 1979, with Carter’s controversial kiss with Brezhnev. It discusses the Soviet-Cuban offensive in Angola...

... to the Helsinki accords, including successful Western efforts to use Brezhnev’s desire for an agreement to gain unusually forthcoming positions on borders and human contacts, last-minute doubts in Moscow that had to be squashed by Brezhnev. Soviet dissidents used the accord to create “Helsinki Monitoring Groups...

... In December 1986, Gorbachev allowed exiled dissident Sakharov to return to Moscow and when he encountered foot-dragging at a January 1987 Central Committee plenum on democratic change, Gorbachev stepped up glasnost to mobilize public opinion to outflank conservative opponents. An explosion...

... of backchannel negotiations between Kissinger and Soviet ambassador Dobrynin. It discusses the US-Soviet summit held in 1972, SALT accords and Soviet leadership maneuvering. An important element is Nixon’s failed efforts to use Moscow to moderate North Vietnamese behavior, his decision to escalate bombing...