In From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs-many in Russian-as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.

Preface: two treaties, two eras -- First visit to the USSR: things are not as they seem -- Leonid Brezhnev: power and stagnation -- Repression and resistance -- The Nixon years -- A tale of two cities: Vladivostok and Helsinki -- The unhappy presidency of Jimmy Carter -- Two crises and an Olympiad -- Interregnum: Andropov in power -- Ronald Reagan's first administration -- Eagle vs. bear: US and Soviet approaches to strategic arms control -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Gorbachev ascendant -- New kid on the block: Gorbachev emerges in US-Soviet relations -- I guess I should say Michael: the turn in US-Soviet relations -- 1989: year of miracles or time of troubles? -- Stumbling toward collapse: Gorbachev's final eighteen months -- The August coup -- Red star falling August coup aftermath -- Why did the USSR collapse?.

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