Controlling And Ending Conflict: Issues After The Cold War

Works Cited Cimbala, Stephen J., and Sidney R. Waldman, eds. Controlling and Ending Conflict: Issues before and after the Cold War. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Questia School. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

Controlling and Ending Conflict: Issues before and after the Cold War is a book that includes information on the political aspects of ceasing conflict before and after the Cold War. Topics include Soviet thinking, nuclear deterrence, and several other causes and effects of conflict termination. This source would be useful to a study of Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because it provides examples of terminated conflicts before and after the Cold War.

Funigiello, Philip J. American-Soviet
Trade in the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Print.

American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War is a useful source for a historical investigation (HI) covering the Reagan Administration’s effect on the Soviet policy of perestroika.
The book covers American-Soviet trade, politics, and war during the Cold War. Beginning with the effects of the Bolshevik Revolution, the source follows the policies of the Soviet Union in relation to the United States. The limitation of this source would be that it focuses mainly on the effects of Soviet policies and reforms on trade between the Soviet Union and the United States. The usefulness of this source could be improved if it described with more detail the Reagan administration’s effect of this trading.

Garthoff, Raymond L. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994. Questia School. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

Beginning at the détente of the 1970’s, American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War details the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the close of the Cold War. It reviews several different treaties, policies, and conferences between countries and their leaders during the Cold War. IT will be useful as a source in a historical investigation about Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because it specifically covers relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. while Reagan was in power. It covers specific issues and conferences such
as Gorbachev, Reagan, and the Raykjavik Summit.

Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Socialist Community. New York: Praeger, 1990. Print.

This book not only covers the effects of Soviet policies and reforms on the Soviet Union but also on other socialist countries.
This source will be useful for an HI covering the Reagan Administration’s effect on the Soviet policy of perestroika because it does explain the effects of Soviet policies on the Soviet Union. However, it also goes into detail about the effect of Soviet reforms on surrounding socialist countries, which does not directly relate to the HI question. This source would be stronger for its needed use in the HI if it did not involve so much detail about the effect of Soviet policies on other countries.

Hewett, Edward A., and Victor H. Winston. Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: The Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991. Print.

Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: The Economy details the development of the Soviet Union and the changes that occur politically and economically throughout the development. This is an extremely useful source because of the detailed explanations provided about perestroika’s socioeconomic aspects and its aftermath. However, this source does not immediately address the Reagan administration’s effect on Soviet policies. The book does include many reforms made by Gorbachev during his rule and connects them all to each
other.

Larson, Deborah Welch. Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997. Questia School. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

This book contains information on foreign policies during the Cold War. It includes policies and issues between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, also touching on policies with Germany. This source would be useful in a historical investigation on Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because it studies the effects of foreign policies on the politics and economies of the Soviet Union and the U.S.

Lefever, Ernest W.. America 's Imperial Burden: Is the Past Prologue?. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. Print.

This source has two sections devoted specially to the Cold War and the United States’ relations with other countries during the war. This is a moderately useful source for an HI covering the Reagan Administration’s effect on the Soviet policy of perestroika. While it does detail America’s involvement in the Cold War, it does not specifically cover the Reagan administration’s effect on Soviet policies such as perestroika.

Powaski, Ronald E. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Questia School. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 will be a useful source in a study of Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because it covers each specific president involved in the Cold War and their effect on the war. It covers, in detail, Ronald Reagan’s and his administration’s involvement in the Cold War from 1981-1989. The source describes Reagan’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ross, Robert S., ed. China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. Questia School. Web. 6 Oct. 2013.

This source covers the triangle of policies and relations between China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Though it will not consistently be the most useful source because its additional focus on China interferes, it also covers the relations and policies between the Soviet Union and the United States. China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War is a useful book for the study of Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because of its specific focus on relations between countries during the Cold War.

The End of the Communist Revolution. London: Routledge, 1993. Print.

This source focuses on the effect of the reforms made by Gorbachev. The author states that the reforms return the Soviet Union to the decentralist, anti-imperial principles that occurred before the Russian Revolution of 1917. The source dedications one chapter to Perestroika I and one chapter to Perestroika II. The chapters explain perestroika and its leaders, causes, and effects. However, the main focus of this book is the end of communism, so it does not have a central point of stressing perestroika throughout the book.

The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse. Rev. ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Print.

This excellent source provides information about Soviet politics before and after Gorbachev and also on the domestic and international factors that formed Gorbachev’s reforms. The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse is a useful source for and HI that covers the Reagan Administration’s effect on the Soviet policy of perestroika. This book begins with the roots of perestroika and its development and reforms after international and domestic involvement.

Zubok, V. M.. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Print.

This source provides information on the leaders of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While it is useful because of its ties to relations with the United States, the book does not contain specifics on the role of Ronald Reagan and his administration. This source could be strengthened for its needed use in the HI by adding more detail about the role of Ronald Reagan and the Ronald Reagan administration during the Cold War.