1st Edition
The Soviet Empire Reconsidered Essays In Honor Of Adam B. Ulam
263 Pages
by
Routledge
263 Pages
by
Routledge
263 Pages
by
Routledge
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The demise of any empire provides an occasion for fresh examination of longaccepted "truths" about its history and its intrinsic nature: What set this particular empire apart from others? Why did it develop in the way that it did? Could events have taken a different path? What legacies has the empire left to its heirs? In this volume, eminent scholars reflect on the unique and central features of... Read more
Introduction -- The Truman Doctrine and the Rhetoric of Totalitarianism* -- Stalinism in Romania: A Preliminary Discussion of Stalin, Ceausescu, and Totalitarianism -- The Re-Sovietization of Formerly Occupied Areas of the USSR During World War II -- The Soviet Gulag in Eastern Germany, 1945-50* -- The Ideology of Imperative Planning: Marxism and the Ideological Consequences of Market Reform* -- Environmental Problems in Moscow -- From Confrontation to Cooperation: Soviet Foreign Policy in the Mirror of Ideology -- From Rapallo to Reunification: Russia and Germany in the Twentieth Century -- Military Power in Russian National Security Policy -- The Emergence of Russian Foreign Policy: Political Debates and Russia's National Interest -- Beyond the Cold War: Prospects for Central European Security and Cooperation in a Post-Communist World*
Biography
Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz
