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This volume examines what life was like for ordinary people during the exciting years of the 1980s and 1990s when the decades-long Cold War came to an end. It includes the speeches and ideas of such leaders as U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev as well as reports on how life changed in the Soviet Union thanks to Gorbachev's reforms. The book also features accounts of... More

This volume examines what life was like for ordinary people during the exciting years of the 1980s and 1990s when the decades-long Cold War came to an end. It includes the speeches and ideas of such leaders as U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev as well as reports on how life changed in the Soviet Union thanks to Gorbachev's reforms. The book also features accounts of such major events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the end of the Soviet Union itself.

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