By Peter G. Boyle
December 28, 2022
American-Soviet Relations (1993) is a study of American policy towards the Soviet Union from 1917 to the fall of Communism. It attempts to understand what precisely were the roots of the Cold War and an analysis of the later relationship in the light of the Soviet Union’s evolution since the ...
By Aitchen K. Wu
December 15, 2022
China and the Soviet Union, first published in 1950, is written by a Chinese former diplomat and university professor, and calls on his many years of experience to provide an even-handed analysis of Sino-Russian relations. It ranges back to 1618 for some much-needed historical background, but the ...
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By Kurt M. Campbell, S. Neil Macfarlane
December 15, 2022
Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world. Organized around particular themes and issues, it pays attention to both theoretical fundamentals in Soviet doctrine and to Soviet actions in ...
By F. Fehér, R.F. Miller
December 15, 2022
Khrushchev and the Communist World, first published in 1984, reviews the Khrushchev era, when the legacy of the Stalinist past was partly repudiated and the possibilities of reform within the USSR and the countries of the socialist camp were explored. The lessons derived from this exploration by ...
By Various
December 28, 2022
Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Foreign Policy is a collection of 26 previously out-of-print titles that are key research in the study of the foreign politics of the Soviet Union. They examine the shifting relationships between the USSR and the democratic West; the Soviet domination of Eastern ...
By Robert F. Miller
December 28, 2022
Soviet Foreign Policy Today (1991) is the culmination of almost 30 years of observations of Soviet foreign and domestic politics, written at the time of Gorbachev’s great changes. It locates the changes of Gorbachev in the context of the traditional goals and practices of Soviet foreign policy, and...
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By Richard D. Vine
December 28, 2022
Soviet-East European Relations as a Problem for the West (1987) analyses the evolution of Eastern Europe both internally and in its relationship with the Soviet Union, the development of relations between the two superpowers, and the equilibrium between the two security systems. It examines how ...
By Bhabani Sen Gupta
December 15, 2022
The Afghan Syndrome (1982) analyses and interprets the 1979 Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan and also examines its effects on America, China, India, Pakistan and other Islamic nations. It argues that one of the results was the rise of other centres of economic, political and military ...
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By Peter Wiles
December 28, 2022
The New Communist Third World (1982) discuss the economic policies of the Soviet Union towards the countries of the developing world adopting a Marxist-Leninist form of government. The authors demonstrate as well the variety of political systems covered by the term Communism, and provide an ...
By Peter Shearman
December 28, 2022
The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World. The Soviet-Cuban link is assessed in four conflicts: Angola, Ethiopia, Grenada and Nicaragua. It is shown that Cuba is largely an autonomous ...
By Peter J. S. Duncan
December 15, 2022
The Soviet Union and India (1989) examines the costs and benefits to the Soviet Union of its substantial economic and military involvement with India, and assesses how India fits into Soviet policies towards southwest Asia and China. It analyses the effects on Soviet-Indian relations of the ...
By Luca Pietromarchi
December 28, 2022
The Soviet World, first published in 1965, examines both the domestic society of the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and its foreign relations with the capitalist world. Khrushchev offered a challenge to the West, to compare the practical benefits to the people of communism and capitalism, and his ...