Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Three Days Sequence)

“An prompt traditional, if not the best ebook so far on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay Winik

President Reagan’s dramatic battle to win the Chilly Conflict is revealed as by no means earlier than by the #1 bestselling creator and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Particular Report with Bret Baier.

Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire. 

In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary management of President Dwight Eisenhower on the daybreak of the Chilly Conflict. Now in his extremely anticipated new historical past, Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s lengthy wrestle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central position in shaping the world we stay in at the moment.

On Could 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed viewers at Moscow State College, delivering a outstanding—but now largely forgotten—speech that capped his first go to to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a collection of summits between Reagan and Soviet Common Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to scale back the nuclear menace. Greater than that, Reagan considered it as “a grand historic second”: a possibility to gentle a path for the Soviet individuals—towards freedom, human rights, and a future he informed them they may embrace in the event that they selected. It was the primary time an American president had given an tackle about human rights on Russian soil. Reagan had as soon as referred to as the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” Now, saying that depiction was from “one other time,” he beckoned the Soviets to hitch him in a brand new imaginative and prescient of the longer term. The significance of Reagan’s Moscow speech was largely neglected on the time, however the brand new world he spoke of was quick approaching; the next yr, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union started to disintegrate, leaving the USA the only real superpower on the world stage.

Right now, the top of the Chilly Conflict is probably the defining historic second of the previous half century, and have to be understood if we’re to make sense of America’s present place on this planet, amid the re-emergence of US-Russian tensions throughout Vladimir Putin’s tenure. Utilizing Reagan’s three days in Moscow to inform the bigger story of the president’s important and sometimes misunderstood position in orchestrating a profitable, peaceable ending to the Chilly Conflict, Baier illuminates the character of considered one of our nation’s most honored leaders—and divulges the distinctive qualities that allowed him to achieve forming an alliance for peace with the Soviet Union, when his predecessors had fallen quick.