The Imagery of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the Russian Empire

This study explores how Soviet leaders shaped the image their state cast since the death of Stalin. The fact that the leadership's legitimacy rested upon values and aims that were fundamentally at odds with the international system imposed a cumbersome task of image management. Each leader approached this task with a different strategy, and each strategy had direct consequences for Soviet behavior abroad and for the coherence of the Soviet state at home. The dynamics of foreign policy and image management, from Khrushchev and Brezhnev through Gorbachev and Yeltsin, are analyzed here in a revealing look at a superpower on the world stage.

List of contents

Preface
The Imagery of Soviet Foreign Policy
Imagery in International Relations
Russian Images, Soviet Images
Imagery of Khrushchev's Foreign Policy
The Imagery of Brezhnev's Foreign Policy
The Imagery of Gorbachev's Policy
The Imagery of Post-Soviet Russia
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christo. Smart

Product details

• Authors: Christo. Smart, Christopher Smart
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.1995
• EAN: 9780275948573
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94857-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics