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Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union
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Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union / Thomas Crump.
ISBN
1315883783 (electronic bk.)
9781315883786 (electronic bk.)
1138687340
9781138687349
Publication
London : Routledge, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages : : maps (black and white.)
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Originally published: 2014.
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Summary
Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin. During Brezhnev's time Soviet power seemed at its height and increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and successful in its space missions, and the Soviet Union's influence reached into all part of the world. Yet, as this book, which provides a comprehensive overview and reassessment of Brezhnev's life, early political career and career as leader, shows, the seeds of decline were sown in Brezhnev's time. There was a huge over-commitment of resources to the Soviet industrial-military complex and to massively expensive foreign policy overstretch. At the same time there was a failure to deliver on citizens' rising expectations, and an overconfident ignoring of dissidents and their demands. The book will be of great interest to Russian specialists, and also to scholars of international relations and world history.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The Ukrainian crucible
Brezhnev and World War II
The death of Stalin and rise of Khrushchev
Brezhnev's domestic politics
Brezhnev's life at the top
Confronting the military industrial complex
Dissidence and human rights
International politics: peacemaker under pressure
The Soviet bloc, the Brezhnev doctrine and Ostpolitik
US presidents and the nuclear arms race
The mixed blessings brought by Brezhnev's new German friendship: the Helsinki Conference and its aftermath
Brezhnev's blind spot: Africa and Middle East
South and Central Asia: challenges that Brezhnev could not ignore
Brezhnev's confrontation with China
Brezhnev and the fall of the Soviet state
Downhill all the way.
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