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Introduction: End of the Cold War in History and Historiography, Jussi M. Hanhimaki Gorbachev’s "vision" and the Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe, Svetlana Savaranskaya Strategist or improviser? The historiographical debate on Ronald Reagan, Barbara Zanchetta Observers or Actors? Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Demise of the Soviet Union, Jussi M. Hanhimaki George Shultz, the Nuclear and Space Talks, and the End of the Cold War, James Graham Wilson Did Nuclear Weapons Matter? Ideas, Protests and Diplomacy in the INF Controversy, Andrea Chiampan The Role of Second-Rank Political Actors in Ending the Cold War, Wolfgang Mueller German Foreign Policy and the ‘German Problem’ before and after Unification, Bernhard Blumenau Freer Movement in Return for Cash - Franz Josef Straus, Alexander Schalck Golodkowski and the Milliardenkredite for the GDR, 1983-84, Stephan Kieninger The Opening of the Austria-Hungarian Border Revisited: How European Detente Contributed to Overcoming the Iron Curtain, Maximilian Graf Dependency on the Bipolar World: Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania and the End of the Cold War, Sielke Kelner The Single European Act, European Political Cooperation and the End of the Cold War, Eleonora Guasconi The Coercion of Creditworthiness: Western Commercial banks and the Democratic Transitions of 1989, Fritz Bartel Conclusion: Unexpected Transformations?, Editors