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050 00 $aDK290.3.S54$bE38 1997
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100 1 $aEkedahl, Carolyn McGiffert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88160019
245 14 $aThe wars of Eduard Shevardnadze /$cCarolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman.
260 $aUniversity Park :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9701
300 $axxiii, 331 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tMap of the Commonwealth of Independent States - European States --$tMap of Georgia --$g1.$tShevardnadze's Roots: The Seeds of Reform --$g2.$tEvolution of a Political Partnership --$g3.$tDomestic Imperative: The Need to Reform --$g4.$tRocking the Boat: Shevardnadze Battles the Bureaucracy --$g5.$tThe Centrality of the United States --$g6.$tMoscow's Conscience on Human Rights --$g7.$tNew Directions in Europe --$g8.$tRetreat from the Third World: Out of Afghanistan into the Gulf War --$g9.$tApproach to Third World Tensions: From Exploitation to Resolution --$g10.$tShevardnadze's Resignation: The End of the Road --$g11.$tAbroad at Home.
520 $aCarolyn Ekedahl and Melvin Goodman - veteran observers of the Soviet system - describe and analyze Shevardnadze's career, beginning with his Georgian past. They assess his responsibility for the Soviet collapse and the leadership role he continues to play in the independent state of Georgia. While sympathetic to what he has achieved, the authors show how Shevardnadze was a product of the Soviet system he sought to change but would help to destroy.
520 8 $aHe has proven a skillful politician who exploited available instruments of power to advance his career and further his policy objectives. For this book, the authors have interviewed many high-ranking American, Georgian, Russian, and Soviet officials, including Shevardnadze himself and former secretaries of state George Shultz and James Baker. Both Shultz and Baker credit Shevardnadze with convincing them that Moscow was committed to serious negotiations.
520 8 $aThey conclude that history would have been far different if it were not for the personal diplomacy of Shevardnadze.
600 10 $aShevardnadze, Ė. A.$q(Ėduard Amvrosievich),$d1928-2014.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142234
650 0 $aStatesmen$zSoviet Union$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112261
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$y1985-1991.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007999
700 1 $aGoodman, Melvin A.$q(Melvin Allan),$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90603163
852 00 $bleh$hDK290.3.S54$iE38 1997