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    A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey
    A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey
    A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey
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    A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey

    By Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev

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    Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and later in an interdepartmental working group. Vitaly Katayev was a skilled designer and an acute observer. His recollections in this book, along with documents he deposited at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. This monograph shows how Soviet leaders were often hobbled by a poor understanding of what was happening in the United States, but it also demonstrates that Americans, too, had a weak grasp of what was happening in Moscow, before and after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. The misunderstandings on both sides were a symptom of the deepest chasm of the Cold War and A Memoir of the Missile Age provides a valuable key with which to open the Soviet black box.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9780817914769
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