Dateline Moscow: Burying Lenin
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- Understanding the Soviet regime. // Foreign Policy;Summer84, Issue 59, p113
Decadent but deadly--so stands the Soviet empire before the rest of the world. Both the decline of the Soviet communist ideology and morale and an impressive growth of Soviet power have been evident during the last two decades. The simple instinct of survival should require Americans to make a...
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The psychological bases of Soviet society. If the U.S. is ever to manage its difficult relationship with the Soviet Union, Americans must come to a better understanding of the psychological bases underlying Soviet society--more precisely, the psychological bases underlying the societies of the...
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Argues that the Soviet totalitarian empire has reached the end of the road, and that while the break with the past is irreversible, it is becoming clear that destroying the empire is far easier than developing a sustainable democratic order. Gorbachev's failure in managing his own revolution;...
