End of the Outer Empire - Soviet-East European Relations in Transition, 1985-90

Klappentext It is remarkably easy to take revolutionary changes for granted after the event. Yet, as this fascinating account shows, the disappearance of communist rule in Eastern Europe was the result of a conjunction of long-term decay and collapse from within with a fundamental shift in the second half of the 1980s in the policy of the Soviet Union. This study sheds light on the dynamics of the decline of an empire, on the complex interaction of economic, political and security factors in both domestic and foreign policy in shaping revolutionary change. It suggests that the East European states have to contend with a burdensome domestic and foreign policy legacy far more intractable than many initially assumed as they redefine their relations with the successor states of the Soviet Union, and with the rest of Eastern Europe, Europe and the rest of the world. Zusammenfassung For students! academics and professionals in international relations and politics and Soviet and Eastern European studies! this book examines the decline of the internal empire and the disintegration of the external one. It outlines the development of current structural problems in Eastern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Soviet Policy Towards Eastern Europe in Transition - Alex Pravda Military Relations - Jonathan Eyal Economic Relations - Alan Smith Polish-Soviet Relations - George Sanford Hungarian-Soviet Relations - Gabriel Partos GDR-Soviet Relations - Adrian Hyde-Price Czechoslovak-Soviet Relations - Borek Hnizdo Romanian-Soviet Relations - Jonathan Eyal Giving Up Illusions and Unravelling Ties - Jonathan Eyal 1990

Product details

• Authors: Alex Pravda, Royal Institute Of International Affairs
• Assisted by: Alex Pravda (Editor), Pravda Alex (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.1992
• EAN: 9780803987234
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8723-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: RIIA
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, European Studies;International Relations