The Soviet Union and the Carter Administration

Abstract

lt has now been almost six years since Jimmy Carter left office. In this period, the memoirs of almost everyone of the key American participants in Soviet-American relations during the Carter Administration have been published, along with evaluations by Soviet officials, and a major Soviet defector. In addition a number of American scholars have published analyses of the Carter Administration's dealing with the USSR. the most extensive being that of Raymond Garthoff, himself a participantobserver of Soviet American relations during this period.