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Informationen zum Autor (SHORT BIO) J. L. Black is professor of Russian and Soviet history and director of the Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations (CRCR), Carleton University, Ottawa. (LONG BIO) J. L. Black is professor of Russian and Soviet history and director of the Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations (CRCR), Carleton University, Ottawa. He received a Ph.D. in history from McGill University in 1968 and went on to teach at Laurentian University. He moved to Carleton University in 1976. He is the author of Nicholas Karamzin and Nineteenth Century Russian Society: A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought (1975), Citizens for the Fatherland: Education, Educators, and Pedagogical Ideals in Eighteenth-Century Russia (1979), G.-F. Müller and the Imperial Russian Academy, 1725-1783 (1986), Into the Dustbin of History: The USSR from August Coup to Commonwealth, 1991 (1993), and Canada in the Soviet Mirror: Ideology and Perception in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991 (1998). Klappentext The importance of Russian thinking about NATO expansion eastward has been badly underestimated in the West. In this first comprehensive English-language assessment of the Russian position, Black seeks to remedy that oversight by a thorough examination of Russian official statements, expert analysis, party platforms, and media commentary, which show the degree to which NATO expansion has brought a rare unity to the otherwise fragmented and volatile Russian political arena. Zusammenfassung The immediate and long-term importance of Russian thinking about NATO expansion eastward has been badly underestimated in the West. In this assessment of the Russian position! J.L. Black seeks to remedy that oversight by a thorough examination of Russian official statements.
