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ШАГ В БУДУЩЕЕ: РЕПОРТАЖ О ВИЗИТЕ М.С. ГОРБАЧЕВА В США 7-10 ДЕКАБРЯ 1987 ГОДА: ФОТОАЛЬБОМ

Bibliographic Description

Шаг в будущее: Репортаж о визите М.С. Горбачева в США 7-10 декабря 1987 года: фотоальбом. – М. : Планета, 1988. – ISBN 5-85250-058-5.

Publisher
Планета
Year of publication
1988
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Description

There was a pause of six and a half years in Soviet-American summit meetings. But the pause was by no means a vacuum. It was filled with confrontation, the arms race, and growing tension. Isolated attempts to put relations in order, even in certain practical areas, changed nothing - the already rigid standoff was becoming ever more rigid, dangerous, and unpredictable. The meeting in Geneva became the first real step, in the 1980s, from confrontation toward dialogue. In addition to the plenary sessions with the full delegations present, there were five meetings between the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and the President of the United States, not counting a sixth, when the two leaders said farewell to each other. It was precisely these meetings that were the key events in the dense schedule of Soviet-American negotiations. M. S. Gorbachev rightly said: "The conversations were conducted in a political language, open and direct, and I think this was of great, indeed, I would say, decisive importance".

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