Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War - Paperbackby Simon Miles (Author) In a narrative redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles