The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy

• Author(s): Matthew J. Ouimet,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 309
• ISBN_10: 0807854115
  ISBN_13: 9780807854112
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union , History / Europe / Eastern , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / History & Theory ,

Description:... Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of extensive archival documentation in Moscow and the appearan