San Antonio College Library

Contains primary source material.

Examines the sixty-year history of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, with emphasis on the recent policy of detente.

Relates the story of a secret strategy, developed in the Reagan White House in early 1982, that hastened the demise of the Soviet Union by undermining the Soviet economy and its dwindling resource base while subverting the Kremlin's hold on its global empire.

"Since the World War II, critics have warned us about the futility of a new war that would be fought with nuclear arms and about the dangers involved in relying on such weapons. Yet those who call for nuclear disarmament have nearly always been dismissed as naive and uninformed about the Soviet foreign policy. In The Nuclear Delusion, America's pre-eminent Soviet expert explains why the nuclear arms race has never been based on a fully realistic assessment...

"The American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEF Siberia) was a United States Army force that was involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russian Empire, during the end of World War I after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920. President Woodrow Wilson's objectives for sending troops to Siberia were as much diplomatic as they were military. One major reason was to rescue the 40,000 men of the Czechoslovak Legions, who were being held...

Collects interviews and speeches by the Soviet leader, in which he discusses relations with the United States.

In 1955 the United States and the Soviet Union were matching steps in a race to develop missiles tipped with thermonuclear weapons. American officials were frustrated and alarmed by their inability to learn the scale and progress of the Soviet program, which directly threatened the security of the United States, and they were convinced that serious arms control measures required reliable means for mutual inspection. The result: President Dwight D....

"Benjamin Brown, a young orphan boy transplanted from England to America, undergoes harrowing experiences during the political intrigue of the Federalist period. Ben's struggles to exist reveal the bitter social problems of the era."