When the Soviet Union Entered World PoliticsThe dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development. He demonstrates the central importance of foreign relations to the political imagination of Soviet leaders, both in their plans for industrialization and in the struggle for supremacy among Lenin's successors. Jacobson adopts a post-Cold War interpretative stance, incorporating glasnost and perestroika-era revelations. He also considers Soviet relations with both Europe and Asia from a global perspective, integrating the two modes of early Soviet foreign relations—revolution and diplomacy—into a coherent discussion. Most significantly, he synthesizes the wealth of information that became available to scholars since the 1960s. The result is a stimulating work of international history that interfaces with the sophisticated existing body of scholarship on early Soviet history. |
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... foreign relations as a thing of the past . That project entailed , it seemed to me , transcending concerns and assumptions that had strongly influenced for- eign policy within the nations of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the era ...
... foreign relations as a thing of the past . That project entailed , it seemed to me , transcending concerns and assumptions that had strongly influenced for- eign policy within the nations of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the era ...
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... foreign affairs ( 1918-30 ) , and his efforts to find for the USSR a place of equality , respect , and stability ... policy to a new level of sophistication . The concept of early Soviet foreign relations informed by the total- itarian ...
... foreign affairs ( 1918-30 ) , and his efforts to find for the USSR a place of equality , respect , and stability ... policy to a new level of sophistication . The concept of early Soviet foreign relations informed by the total- itarian ...
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... foreign relations , the other to early Soviet society — developed simultaneously . For the most part , however ... policy after the end of the Civil War is giving way to three closely related notions : ( 1 ) that the survival and ...
... foreign relations , the other to early Soviet society — developed simultaneously . For the most part , however ... policy after the end of the Civil War is giving way to three closely related notions : ( 1 ) that the survival and ...
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... policy as initiated from a diversity of sources and to a picture of Lenin's associates and successors as people who disagreed widely over policy objectives and whose conduct of foreign relations was frequently improvised , disjointed ...
... policy as initiated from a diversity of sources and to a picture of Lenin's associates and successors as people who disagreed widely over policy objectives and whose conduct of foreign relations was frequently improvised , disjointed ...
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... foreign relations the USSR conducted for more than seventy years and of how the international history of this period was shaped by Soviet Russia . As the USSR recedes into the past and as the twentieth century comes to an end , the task ...
... foreign relations the USSR conducted for more than seventy years and of how the international history of this period was shaped by Soviet Russia . As the USSR recedes into the past and as the twentieth century comes to an end , the task ...
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