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Kelley, Colleen E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988
Examines some of the rhetorical choices of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev which dramatize Soviet calls for nuclear weapons de-escalation. Speculates that Gorbachev's peace efforts are sincere, because they are motivated by twin crises of a failing economy and a threatened world community. (MS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Disarmament, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries

Bruner, Michael S. – Communication Quarterly, 1989
Examines samples from public discourse during the period 1961-1989, which reveal several different symbolic uses of the Berlin Wall. Suggests these differences reflect the never-completed struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. (KEH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Peace