The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the horrors of the Second World War, amounted almost to paranoia. This important study of the years since Brezhnev shows how this obsession with national security have been at the core of Russian thinking right through the reforms of the Gorbachev era and the eventual collapse of the USSR, and continues to dominate the turbulent politics of post-Soviet Russia today.
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Covers "security", incorporating military doctrine, political skulduggery, international relations and economic stablilty, seeking to knit them together into a coherent whole. The book follows a broadly chronological line and each chapter contains a chronology.
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Part 1 The challenges of Russian security: Russia's security dilemmas; the security interests. Part 2 "New thinking" and Gorbachev's USSR: security and reform 1979-85; a new way - Cold War to "Common Home" 1985-88. Part 3 The failure of reform: the collapse of the reformist security consensus, 1988-90; confrontation, coup, collapse 1990-91. Part 4 The New Russia: Russia's security 1991-93; Russia and the world.
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`the book is a worthy achievement and a useful introduction to the insecurities of politics and the politics of security in Russia in the early 1990s.'Times Literary Supplement

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ISBN
9780582218529
Publisert
1994-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

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