Research Catalog

Title

Soviet Union, August 1974-December 1976 / editor, David C. Geyer ; general editor, Edward C. Keefer.

Publication

Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Geyer, David C. (David Curtis)
• Keefer, Edward C. (Edward Coltrin), 1945-
• United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs.
• United States. Department of State. Office of the Historian, issuing body.

Description

xxix, 1149 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume, the final of five covering relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon-Ford administrations, presents documentation on how matters as diverse as strategic arms limitation, European security, the Middle East, Jewish emigration, and Angola intersected to influence the course of Soviet-American relations during the presidency of Gerald R. Ford. Documents published here reveal that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger retained the central role in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy on the Soviet Union that he occupied during the Nixon administration and that his influence remained undiminished in meetings between Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974 and at Helsinki in 1975. The volume devotes considerable space to the struggle in Washington between politicians and policymakers over détente, and in particular the October 1974 negotiations leading to the so-called Jackson-Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974, which linked the extension of most favored nation status to an increase in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. These negotiations highlighted the domestic political implications of détente. Although the Secretary of State was the driving force in Soviet affairs, the documents reveal that President Ford also played an important role in policy making. While Ford supported Kissinger's objectives, he also advocated close consultation with Congress, demonstrating that Ford--at least in style, if not in substance-pursued anything but a continuation of his predecessor's approach to foreign policy.

Series Statement

Foreign relations of the United States. 1969-1976 ; v. 16, 0071-7355

Uniform Title

Foreign relations of the United States. 1969-1976 ; v. 16.

Subject

• Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994
• Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
• Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982
• Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023
• United States. Department of State
• Detente > 20th century
• Nuclear arms control > 20th century
• Security, International > 20th century
• Jews > Soviet Union > Perscutions
• Emigration and immigration law > Soviet Union
• United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 20th century
• Soviet Union > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online and in microfiche.

Contents

Preface -- Sources -- Abbreviations and terms -- Persons -- Soviet Union, August 1974-December 1976: Chapter 1: President Ford and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, August-October 1974 -- Chapter 2: Kissinger's Trip to Moscow, October 1974; Chapter 3: The Vladivostok Summit, November 1974; Chapter 4: Soviet Rejection of the Agreement on Jewish Emigration, December 1974-January 1975; Chapter 5: From Geneva to Helsinki: SALT, the Middle East, European Security, February-August 1975; Chapter 6: "Détente Will Not Be a One-Way Street": SALT, American Grain, Soviet Oil, August-November 1975; Chapter 7: Angola and Kissinger's Last Trip to Moscow, November 1975-January 1976; Détente and the 1976 Presidential Election, February 1976-January 1977 -- Index.

Call Number

ICM (Soviet Union) 13-4619

ISBN

• 9780160884627
• 0160884624

OCLC

812534551

Title

Soviet Union, August 1974-December 1976 / editor, David C. Geyer ; general editor, Edward C. Keefer.

Imprint

Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 2012.

Series

Foreign relations of the United States. 1969-1976 ; v. 16, 0071-7355

Foreign relations of the United States. 1969-1976 ; v. 16.

Additional Formats

Also available online and in microfiche.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

http://static.history.state.gov/frus/frus1969-76v16/pdf/frus1969-76v16.pdf

Added Author

Geyer, David C. (David Curtis)

Keefer, Edward C. (Edward Coltrin), 1945-

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs.

United States. Department of State. Office of the Historian, issuing body.

Gpo Item No.

0872-B

Sudoc No.

S 1.1:969-76/v.16

Research Call Number

ICM (Soviet Union) 13-4619