How did Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika affect Soviet
support of Marxist revolution in the Third World? In this book,
four experts on Soviet-Third World relations take a sharp-eyed look
at the role the former Soviet Union played in providing assistance
to Marxist revolutionaries and assess the changes in policy that
occurred under Gorbachev's leadership. Often the Soviet Union
pursued a patient strategy of providing relatively limited amounts
of military assistance to revolutionary movements to ensure that
they would not be defeated. Even when revolutionaries were able to
seize power without a surge of Soviet military support, the Marxist
movements often required substantial military assistance from the
USSR and other communist states to stay in power. Under Gorbachev,
the Soviet Union realized that its previous support for revolution
had saddled it with the burden of propping up weak Marxist regimes
and undermined efforts to achieve detente with the United States.
Gorbachev then acted to reduce the political and economic cost of
supporting Marxist third world regimes. The authors' essays offer a
detailed and challenging analysis of the complexities that have
defined the Soviet Union's support of Marxist revolutions in the
past and will shape future Soviet policy.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
| Release date: |
February 1991 |
| First published: |
1990 |
| Editors: |
Mark N. Katz
|
| Dimensions: |
238 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
164 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-39265-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
International relations >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-521-39265-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780521392655 |
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