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This volume brings together empirical and analytical studies of the
nature and evolution of Soviet-British relations during the 1980s.
The relationship is placed within the wider context of Soviet
policy towards the West and NATO and the pivotal security role
played by Britain between the United States and its West European
allies. The contributors examine the historical background; mutual
perceptions and policy perspectives; Soviet and British interests,
objectives and concerns; and the role of economic, political,
diplomatic, non-governmental and security factors in shaping the
overall relationship. A concluding section evaluates trends in
relations throughout the 1980s. The work of specialists on Soviet
and British policies, Soviet-British Relations since the 1970s
provides perspectives for policy-makers and academic specialists
concerned with Soviet and British foreign and defence policy, as
well as security and international affairs.
This volume brings together empirical and analytical studies of the
nature and evolution of Soviet-British relations during the 1980s.
The relationship is placed within the wider context of Soviet
policy towards the West and NATO and the pivotal security role
played by Britain between the United States and its West European
allies. The contributors examine the historical background; mutual
perceptions and policy perspectives; Soviet and British interests,
objectives and concerns; and the role of economic, political,
diplomatic, non-governmental and security factors in shaping the
overall relationship. A concluding section evaluates trends in
relations throughout the 1980s. The work of specialists on Soviet
and British policies, Soviet-British Relations since the 1970s
provides perspectives for policy-makers and academic specialists
concerned with Soviet and British foreign and defence policy, as
well as security and international affairs.
Written by a team of leading scholars, this book meets the need for
an up-to-date account on the political system and policy progress
which is amerging and an analysis of the future prospects of the
Gorbachev revolution.
The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet
politics and yet its development in recent years has received very
little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading
specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance
decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide
both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of
official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party
Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of
ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book
will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist
politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist
audience.
The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet
politics and yet its development in recent years has received very
little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading
specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance
decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide
both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of
official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party
Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of
ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book
will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist
politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist
audience.
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.
Leaders and leadership continue to dominate Russia's political
development. Like his predecessors in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin
has made a crucial impact on the substance and style of Russian
politics. His efforts to use traditional tools of state power to
manage democracy and market capitalism have had mixed effects on
both. Leading Russia investigates the ambiguities and
contradictions of Putin's rule from four perspectives. The volume
first considers his leadership in the context of Russia's
convulsive historical cycle of revolutionary transformation,
breakdown, consolidation, and stagnation. The study then analyses
how normative and institutional components of democracy have fared
under Putin's regime of stronger executive control. It proceeds to
examine the strengths and weaknesses of presidential power
vis-a-vis bureaucratic, regional, and corporate groups. The volume
concludes with two assessments of the strategic direction in which
Putin is taking Russia. They explore the tensions between
bureaucratic-authoritarian trends and Putin's apparent commitment
to electoral democracy, market capitalism, and alignment with the
West. The book helps to deepen our understanding of the cultural
and institutional factors shaping Putin's leadership approach and
policy priorities. More widely, it sheds light on the complexity of
the relationship between post-communist leadership, democracy, and
economic modernization.
This is a detailed guide to the structure and hierarchy of
organizations in the republics. It contains biographies of the most
prominent members of the governments, and reflects the change that
have taken place with the break-up of the USSR.
After the turmoil following the collapse of Soviet power,
post-Communist Russia has emerged as an assertively independent
force in international affairs. Meanwhile, an intense debate has
been underway in Moscow about Russia's national interests and
foreign policy priorities. Domestic political conflicts and the
close ties with former Soviet partner states have made internal
factors particularly particularly important in shaping Russian
foreign policy. Internal Factors in Russian Foreign Policy is the
first systematic analysis of the domestic political forces which
condition the international behaviour of the new Russian state.
Four leading specialists examine in turn the areas of foreign
policy thinking and debate, how policy is made, the public politics
of foreign policy and the role of the military. They explore the
changing domestic alignments associated with recent shifts in
Russian foreign policy, focusing on the roles played by
institutions such as the Security Council and the legislature, by
military groupings and by emerging economic interests. The authors
throw new light on the domestic foundations of Moscow's more
assertive and sef-reliant stance. This book is intended fo
Developments in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics offers a
comprehensively revised and updated edition of the critically
acclaimed Developments in Soviet Politics. Rewritten since the
resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, this timely edition focuses on
the question of defining and understanding post-Soviet politics.
The contributors analyze key institutions and policy processes in
the new political systems emerging after Gorbachev's resignation
and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Various topics discussed include changing leadership, party and
state institutions, patterns of participation, the legal system,
and social, economic, and foreign policymaking. This volume
highlights the problems of governability at all levels posed by the
development of mass politics - especially in its ethnic and
nationalist forms - and concludes by presenting contrasting views
on the future of the post-Soviet system and how it can be best
understood.
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