Heresy from Lesser Voices
Andrew Preston: The Helsinki Conference, 20 June 2019
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War
by Michael Cotey Morgan.
Princeton, 424 pp., £27, November 2018,978 0 691 17606 2 Show More
by Michael Cotey Morgan.
Princeton, 424 pp., £27, November 2018,
“... to keep escalating. Despite the ominous backdrop of the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon began a series of occasional bilateral discussions with Leonid Brezhnev aimed at managing the Cold War more calmly. Tensions in Asia were high, and China’s rivalry with the Soviet Union was intensifying, while the Berlin Wall had already ... ”