The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780192856531
ISBN-10: 0192856537
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: 23 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0192856537
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: 23 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The Human Factoris in many respects the culmination of Archie Brown's long and distinguished career as a scholar and writer. It is full of a lifetime's achievement of wisdom and thought.
Brown's book is a superb achievement, a balanced, judicious and authoritative account of a foundation event of our contemporary world
A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book.
A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Lucidly written and scholarly.
Brown's study is a major contribution to our understanding of the end of the Cold War: scholarly yet very readable and full of memorable anecdotes about the three leaders. He shows that what Gorbachev called the human factor allowed trust to grow between the former adversaries, creating a unique opportunity for peace at a time when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.
written with acute panache and a kinetic knowledge that spans the subject matters entire era (and then some).
In The Human Factor, Brown zooms out from analyzing Soviet decision-making and asks a broader question about why the Cold War ended. Scholars have proposed multiple explanations for the Cold War's end... but Brown encourages readers to focus on the personalities at the top of both the Soviet party-state and Western governments.
It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that.
...a thought-provoking book...I highly recommend this book to readers. Brown is right to highlight the human factor in the ending of the Cold War...the sharpness of many of Browns insights, condensed with commendable crispness in this 500-page [make the book an], eminently readable foray into a highly contentious subject.
What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground.
Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others.
... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative.
The Human Factor makes a major contribution to scholarship and policy analysis. Brown is the leading Western authority on Soviet politics in the late Soviet era ... a shrewd analyst and indefatigable researcher... Archie Brown's outstanding book shows how the unanticipated end of the Cold War came to pass.
The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour.
Here and elsewhere, as he once did for the leaders about whom he now writes, Archie Brown's scholarship can provide wisdom and hope.
Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the human factor underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher.
Brown's book is a superb achievement, a balanced, judicious and authoritative account of a foundation event of our contemporary world
A fascinating and instructive read ... Everybody will learn something from this first-class book.
A masterly survey of the end of the cold war and the roles played in it by Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Lucidly written and scholarly.
Brown's study is a major contribution to our understanding of the end of the Cold War: scholarly yet very readable and full of memorable anecdotes about the three leaders. He shows that what Gorbachev called the human factor allowed trust to grow between the former adversaries, creating a unique opportunity for peace at a time when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.
written with acute panache and a kinetic knowledge that spans the subject matters entire era (and then some).
In The Human Factor, Brown zooms out from analyzing Soviet decision-making and asks a broader question about why the Cold War ended. Scholars have proposed multiple explanations for the Cold War's end... but Brown encourages readers to focus on the personalities at the top of both the Soviet party-state and Western governments.
It is often a challenge for historians to find the right balance between the human factor and the historical forces at play. The value of Archie Brown's study [...] is that it does precisely that.
...a thought-provoking book...I highly recommend this book to readers. Brown is right to highlight the human factor in the ending of the Cold War...the sharpness of many of Browns insights, condensed with commendable crispness in this 500-page [make the book an], eminently readable foray into a highly contentious subject.
What The Human Factor does do, and does so well, is provide a fascinating new perspective on already well-trodden ground.
Brown devotes several fine-grained biographical chapters to the "making" of Gorbachev, the "rise" of Reagan, and the "moulding" of the "Iron Lady", and then traces the three leaders interactions... The result is a compelling picture of what led [them] to act as they did and how the difference each one made differed from the impact of the others.
... magisterial work... based on a wealth of sources in Russian and English... The Human Factor is as much a fine work of foreign policy analysis as it is Cold War history... a fascinating, close-structured narrative.
The Human Factor makes a major contribution to scholarship and policy analysis. Brown is the leading Western authority on Soviet politics in the late Soviet era ... a shrewd analyst and indefatigable researcher... Archie Brown's outstanding book shows how the unanticipated end of the Cold War came to pass.
The book is crammed with information, is well-written, and shows that Brown has a dry sense of humour.
Here and elsewhere, as he once did for the leaders about whom he now writes, Archie Brown's scholarship can provide wisdom and hope.
Another tour de force from Archie Brown: detailed scholarship, elegant prose and a clear argument. Read this book to find why we should not ignore the human factor underpinning great historical shifts. A fascinating account of how the Cold War ended, explored through the personal interactions between three world leaders - Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher.
Notă biografică
Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books on the former Soviet Union and its demise, including The Gorbachev Factor (1996, also published by Oxford University Press) and The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009), both of which won both the Alec Nove Prize and the Political Studies Association's W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for best politics book of the year. A leading authority on Mikhail Gorbachev, he was the first person to draw Margaret Thatcher's attention to Gorbachev (at a 1983 Chequers seminar) as a reform-minded likely future Soviet leader.