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This book examines in depth the question of the changing Soviet Union and U.S. foreign policy. It serves as evidence to the scholarship and expertise the East-West Forum is applying to the issues that are implicit in and emanate from the changing superpower relations.
Sommario
Preface -- Introduction -- Patterns of Change -- The Changing Nature of Change in the USSR -- Sources of Change in Soviet History: State, Society, and the Entrepreneurial Tradition -- Russia After Stalin -- The Soviet Economic Model -- War, Weapons, and Soviet Foreign Policy -- Human Rights: A Thaw Imperiled -- Gorbachev’s Russia -- Gorbachev and the Politics of System Renewal -- The Crisis of the Soviet System of Power and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Political Strategy -- Gorbachev’s Program of Change: Sources, Significance, Prospects -- Russia and the West -- The Evolution of U.S. Policy Goals Toward the USSR in the Postwar Era -- Western Influence on the Soviet Union -- Gorbachev and the United States -- Gorbachev’s Russia and U.S. Options -- U.S. Policy and Gorbachev’s Russia -- East-West Relations -- The Soviet Union and the West: Security and Foreign Policy
Riassunto
This book examines in depth the question of the changing Soviet Union and U.S. foreign policy. It serves as evidence to the scholarship and expertise the East-West Forum is applying to the issues that are implicit in and emanate from the changing superpower relations.
