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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Books By The Same Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations And Glossary -- Note On Terms And Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Cold War And Its Dangers -- The Communist Takeover Of Eastern Europe -- The Asian Battleground -- Change And Unrest In Eastern And Central Europe -- On The Verge Of Catastrophe -- 2. The Making Of Mikhail Gorbachev -- The 1940s -- Moscow University -- Back To Stavropol -- 3. Gorbachev's Widening Horizons -- New Vistas -- Five Hours With 'the Iron Lady' Gorbachev's Thinking On The Eve Of Perestroika -- 4. The Rise Of Ronald Reagan -- Hollywood -- Politics Beckons -- 5. Reagan's First Term -- New Broom At The State Department -- 'evil Empire' And Sdi -- A Shift Of Personnel And Of Priorities -- Mixed Signals -- 6. Margaret Thatcher: The Moulding Of The 'iron Lady' -- Foreign Policy Influences -- Early Years Of The Thatcher Premiership -- Falklands War And Relations With Reagan -- 7. Thatcher And The Turn To Engagement With Communist Europe -- A 'new Policy' -- Ups And Downs Of The Relationship With Reagan -- Part Ii -- 8. Breaking The Ice (1985) Stereotypes And Realities -- Tensions Within The Three Governments -- Approaches To The Summit -- Geneva, November 1985 -- 9. Nuclear Fallout Chernobyl And Reykjavik (1986) -- New People And New Thinking In Moscow -- Chernobyl And Its Impact -- Reagan Administration Wrangles Over Soviet Policy -- Reykjavik -- Reaction To Reykjavik In Moscow, Washington, And London -- 10. Building Trust (1987) -- Putting Political Reform On The Soviet Agenda -- Thatcher And The Puzzle Of Perestroika -- Thatcher's 'most Fascinating And Most Important Foreign Visit' Shultz's Battles In Washington And Progress In Moscow -- Shoring Up The Domestic Base-gorbachev And Reagan -- The Washington Summit -- 11. The End Of The Ideological Divide (1988) -- Intra-elite Differences In Moscow -- Harmonizing Western Approaches -- Reagan In Moscow --