Fate of the Soviet Bloc''s Military Alliance - Reform, Adaptation, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 19851991

The Warsaw Pact, a military alliance established by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, was a significant tool for Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Renewed for 30 years, it was disbanded six years later due to political transformation in Eastern Europe. This Element explains its final years and its demise in 1991.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Early signs of continuity and change; 2. The Warsaw pact's new military doctrine; 3. Restructuring and reductions of forces; 4. Reorientation of soviet policy; 5. The secret reinterpretation of soviet obligations under the Warsaw pact; 6. Dissolution of East European communism; 7. Disbandment of the Warsaw pact; Conclusions; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Kramer, Mark (Harvard University) Kramer, Kramer Mark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009557207
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955720-7
• No. of pages: 74
• Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Poland, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Central Europe, Military administration, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, Eastern bloc