This book presents a comprehensive program for controlling conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. Vincent P. Rock outlines a strategic framework based on political interdependence, diplomatic negotiation, and cooperative security measures. The work analyzes sources of tension between the two superpowers and proposes practical mechanisms to prevent escal…
The Road to Terror presents a comprehensive documentary record of Stalin’s Great Purges, revealing how the Bolshevik leadership descended into political paranoia and internal destruction between 1932 and 1939. Drawn from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, the book exposes the mechanisms of repression, the psychological climate of fear, and the bureaucratic processes that facilitated mas…
The book Soviet Policy in the Third World, edited by W. Raymond Duncan, is a collection of essays and analytical studies on the Soviet Union's foreign policy toward Third World countries during the Cold War. The authors in this volume discuss the political, economic, military, and ideological strategies used by the Soviets to expand their global influence, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Lati…
Wiston churchill once famously observed that the key to understanding Russia's "enigma" is its national interest.
The Conscience of the Revolution by Robert Vincent Daniels is an in-depth study of opposition groups within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the early years of Bolshevik rule. Daniels traces the internal dynamics of the party from the 1917 Revolution to Stalin's consolidation of power, focusing on figures such as Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and other opposition figures. Through a…
Since Gorbachev assumed power in 1985, Soviet attitudes towards the developing world have changed dramatically. This book explores the shape and scope of the "new thinking" in Moscow's foreign policy
A collection of essays, reviews, and speeches examining the changes in the world and in the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and Russia during the twentieth century.
Pointing to the dramatic changes in Soviet policy in Latin America over the past few years, this work argues that the fear of Soviet penetration of the region, which drove US policy during the Cold War, has become groundless and that it is time for the US to adapt its Cuba policy.
A thesis to obtain a doctoral degree submitted by the author to the Australian National University in 1986. This book discusses Soviet-Indonesian relations from 1945–1968 (from Lenin's government to Gorbachev's government).
Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington in 1962. He was only forty-three, the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Amazingly he remained in Washington through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main back channel for the White House and the Kremlin to exchange ideas, negotiate in secret, and set up summit mee…