1st Edition

The Age of Anxiety Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

By Mark Galeotti Copyright 1995
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Part 1 The Challenges of Russian Security; Chapter 1 Russia’s Security Dilemmas; Chapter 2 The Security Interests; Part 2 ‘New Thinking’ and Gorbachev’s USSR; Chapter 3 Security and Reform, 1979–85; Chapter 4 A New Way: Cold War to ‘Common Home’, 1985–88; Part 3 The Failure of Reform; Chapter 5 From Perestroika to Katastroika: The End of the Reformist Security Consensus, 1988–90; Chapter 6 Confrontation, Coup, Collapse, 1990–91; Part 4 The New Russia; Chapter 7 Russia’s Security, 1991–93; Chapter 8 Russia and the World;

Biography

Galeotti, Mark