Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Revised to include New Revelations from Soviet & Cuban Sources

By: Raymond Garthoff

Political Science

the soviet response to the first edition of reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects. using new revelations—such as the fact that moscow had twice as many troops in cuba as the kennedy administration believed—from key soviet and cuban sources, garthoff has revised his earlier analysis to produce the most accurate, eye-opening...