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Nguồn thứ hai

• Anders Aslund, Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform Cornell University Press, 1991
• Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-288052-7
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• Jackson, William D. "Soviet Reassessment of Ronald Reagan, 1985-1988" Political Science Quarterly 1998-1999 113(4): 617-644. Issn: 0032-3195
• Jack Matlock, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004)
• Jack Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)
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