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Loading... After Brezhnev : sources of Soviet conduct in the 1980sby Robert F. Byrnes
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Editor Robert F. Byrnes writes in the preface, on behalf of his 40 fellow co-authors: "All of us agree that there is no likelilhood whatsoever that the Soviet Union will become a political democracy or that it will collapse in the foreseeable future." Eight years later, it did exactly that -- vanish into the dustbin of history, to quote a felicitous phrase of Leon Trotsky. This book represents the most stupid collective wisdom about the Soviet Union since 1919, when Lincoln Steffins came back from a visit to Leninist Moscow and proclaimed, "I have seen the future and it works." no reviews | add a review
35 American specialists attempt to identify and explain the factors that are most likely to influence Soviet foreign policy in the 1980s. Seweryn Bialer reviews the political legacy of the Brezhnev regime and analyzes problems inherent in the transfer of power. Robert W. Campbell studies the reasons for the slowing down of the Soviet economy and the problems in reviving it. Soviet military capabilities and the role of the armed forces are discussed by Coit D. Blacker. The silence in Soviet cultural life is examined by Maurice Friedberg. Andrzej Korbonski assesses Soviet assets and liabilities in maintaining control of Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Finally, Adam Ulam analyzes the effect of the outside world on Soviet policies. ISBN 0-253-35392-0 : $25.00; ISBN 0-253-20306-6 (pbk.) : $12.50. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)327.47Social sciences Political Science International Relations Europe Russia and Eastern EuropeLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |