The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World

by Edited by Roger E. Kanet

• ISBN13: 9780521344593
• ISBN10: 052134459X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-07-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Soviet policy towards the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America has undergone substantial expansion and change during the three decades since Khrushchev first initiated efforts to break out of the international isolation in which the USSR still found itself in the immediate post-Stalin years. Over the course of the past thrity years the Soviet Union has expanded significantly both the geographical range of its involvement with developing countries, and the intensity of its political, military and economic activities. Moreover the USSR has increasingly acted in consort with 'allies' such as Cuba and the countries of Eastern Europe. The studies in the present volume examine various aspects of recent Soviet and East European policy towards the Third World.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword R. C. Elwood

Preface Roger E. Kanet

Part I. The Third World In Soviet Foreign Policy: 1. The Soviet Union and the Third World from Khrushchev to Gorbachev: the place of the Third World in evolving Soviet global strategy Roger E. Kanet

2. Revolutionary change in the Third World: recent Soviet reassessments Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier

3. Anti-Soviet insurgencies: growing trend or passiing phase? Mark N. Katz

4. The Soviet Union and the New World information order Paul Roth

5. Soviet propaganda and the process of national liberation Roger E. Kanet

Part II. CMEA Economic Involvement in the Third World: 6. Soviet economic policy in the Third World Heintich Machowski and Siegfried Schultz

7. Eastern Europe and the Third World: economic interactions and policies Laure Despré

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8. The non-European members of the CMEA: a model for developing countries? Giovanni Graziani

Part III. The Soviet Union in the Middle East and South Asia: 9. Soviet policy towards Syria in the Andropov era Robert O. Freedman

10. Indo-Soviet security relations Jyotirmoy Banerjie

Index.