From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991

An updated edition of Don Oberdorfer’s acclaimed book, The Turn First published in 1991 as The Turn , this is the gripping narrative history of the most important international development of our time―the passage of the United States and the Soviet Union from the Cold War to a new era. Don Oberdorfer makes the reader a privileged behind-the-scenes spectator as U.S. and Soviet leaders take each other’s measure and slowly set about their historic task. Oberdorfer writes diplomatic history with a vital extraordinary intimacy made possible by comprehensive interviews with major figures on both sides and exclusive material from a host of other sources. Now this widely praised book is available in a new, updated paperback edition that continues the narrative up to the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union. Replete with revealing portraits of historical personalities, as riveting as a spy thriller, this is an enthralling record of history in the making.