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Based on a series of seminars held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, Jan. 1981-May 1982.

Includes index.

Preface / Simon Franses, Jackie Lyman, and Tim Parsloe

The post-Brezhnev era / Martin McCauley

Leadership and the succession struggle / Martin McCauley

Dissent, opposition, and instability / Iain Elliot

Soviet economic prospects, can the Soviet economic system survive / Alan H. Smith

Agriculture / Alec Nove

Foreign trade policy : the USSR, the West, and Eastern Europe as an eternal triangle / Philip Hanson

The military build-up / Jonathan Alford

Soviet-East European relations / George Schöpflin

Sino-Soviet relations / Christina Holmes

Is détente dead? / Hugh Seton-Watson.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1975-1985.

Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1976-