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The wars of Eduard Shevardnadze
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The wars of Eduard Shevardnadze

Author: Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl; Melvin A Goodman
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Carolyn 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
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Named Person: Ėduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl; Melvin A Goodman
ISBN: 0271016043 9780271016047
OCLC Number: 34658770
Description: xxiii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Map of the Commonwealth of Independent States - European States -- Map of Georgia -- 1. Shevardnadze's Roots: The Seeds of Reform -- 2. Evolution of a Political Partnership -- 3. Domestic Imperative: The Need to Reform -- 4. Rocking the Boat: Shevardnadze Battles the Bureaucracy -- 5. The Centrality of the United States -- 6. Moscow's Conscience on Human Rights -- 7. New Directions in Europe -- 8. Retreat from the Third World: Out of Afghanistan into the Gulf War -- 9. Approach to Third World Tensions: From Exploitation to Resolution -- 10. Shevardnadze's Resignation: The End of the Road -- 11. Abroad at Home.
Responsibility: Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman.

Abstract:

Carolyn 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. He 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.

They conclude that history would have been far different if it were not for the personal diplomacy of Shevardnadze.

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