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The Soviet Union under Brezhnev.
The Soviet Union Under Brezhnev provides an accessible post-Soviet perspective on the history of the USSR from the mid-1960's to the mid-1980's. It challenges both the 'evil empire' image of the USSR that was widespread in the early 1980's and the 'stagnation' labe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Seminar studies in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Part One: Introduction; 1. The Soviet Union at the end of the Khrushchev Era; The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev; The New Leaders; Soviet Society a Decade After Stalin's Death; The Soviet Union and the World in 1964; Part Two: Analysis; 2. Leadership Politics; High Politics and Brezhnev's Consolidation of Power; Brezhnev as Politician: Mannequin or Machiavellian?; 'Two Brezhnevs'?; The Soviet Elite in the Brezhnev Era; 3. Policy-Making in the Brezhnev Era.
- Brezhnev as Policy-maker: From Consensus to Stagnation?The Role of the Politburo and Secretariat; Taking Advice: Information, Institutions and Expertise; Policy-making in Practice: The Case of Arms Control; 4. Foreign Policy from Cuba to Helsinki; The Defence Build-up of the 1960s; Managing the Bloc; War in Vietnam and US-Soviet Relations; The Road to Superpower Détente; China; The Soviet Union and the Developing World; The Era of High Détente; 5. From Helsinki to the Second Cold War; Arms Control and Trade; Détente Under Strain; China; Afghanistan; Poland.
- Conflicting Expectations and the Failure of DétenteAfter Détente; 6. Economic Policy under Brezhnev and Kosygin; Soviet Industry Under the Kosygin Reforms and After; The Limits of Reform; Soviet Agriculture in the Brezhnev Era; Blind Spots in Economic Policy and the 'Obsession with Growth'; 7. Economic Performance; Growth Performance Under Brezhnev and Kosygin; The Failure of the Centrally Planned Economy; Détente, Foreign Trade and the 'Scientific and Technical Revolution'; Living Standards and Household Welfare; 8. Socio-Economic and Demographic Change; Urbanisation and Education.
- The 'Social Contract' Under StrainEmerging Demographic Problems; Nationalities Policy Under Brezhnev; 9. Culture and Ideas; Culture High and Low; The Crackdown on Dissent; The Changing Nature of Dissidence; Growing Room for 'Permitted Heterodoxy'; Part Three: Assessment; 10. Brezhnev's Legacy to Gorbachev; Brezhnev's Twilight; The Andropov Interregnum; The Chernenko Interlude; State and Society at the End of the Brezhnev Era; Part Four: Documents; Glossary; Who's Who; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.