Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Foreign Policy
The Limits to Power: Soviet Policy in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i
June 15, 2024
The Limits to Power (1979) analyses the spectrum of Soviet interests and policies in the Middle East following the Yom Kippur War of October 1973: how the Soviets handled the oil question, military and economic aid, policy toward Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the Palestinian organisations – and toward Israel...
The New Communist Third World: An Essay in Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Wiles
June 15, 2024
The New Communist Third World (1982) discuss the economic policies of the Soviet Union towards the countries of the developing world adopting a Marxist-Leninist form of government. The authors demonstrate as well the variety of political systems covered by the term Communism, and provide an ...
The Russians in the Arctic: Aspects of Soviet Exploration and Exploitation of the Far North, 1937–57
1st Edition
By Terence Armstrong
June 15, 2024
The Russians in the Arctic (1958) examines Soviet attitudes towards the Arctic, its exploration and opening for exploitation, and the impact of Soviet rule and policies on the peoples native to the vast Siberian wilderness....
The Soviet Union and Cuba
1st Edition
By Peter Shearman
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World. The Soviet-Cuban link is assessed in four conflicts: Angola, Ethiopia, Grenada and Nicaragua. It is shown that Cuba is largely an autonomous ...
The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945–1955
1st Edition
By Rami Ginat
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union and Egypt, first published in 1993, sheds new light on Soviet policy towards the Middle East after 1945. It seeks to uncover and analyse the events leading to the eventual domination of Egypt and other Arab countries by the Soviet Union. Soviet penetration into the region can only ...
The Soviet Union and India
1st Edition
By Peter J. S. Duncan
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union and India (1989) examines the costs and benefits to the Soviet Union of its substantial economic and military involvement with India, and assesses how India fits into Soviet policies towards southwest Asia and China. It analyses the effects on Soviet-Indian relations of the ...
The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World
1st Edition
By Galia Golan
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World (1988) is a systematic comparison of Soviet theory about, and actual behaviour toward, movements for national liberation in the Third World. In this definitive study, Professor Golan demonstrates that Soviet behaviour toward such...
The Soviet Union in World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kurt London
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s. Examining the impact of Soviet policies and actions on key nations and regions throughout the world and highlighting their significance as ...
The Soviet Union in the Third World: Successes and Failures
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert H. Donaldson
June 15, 2024
The Soviet Union in the Third World (1981) analyses Soviet objectives in the developing world, the instruments of foreign policy employed and their success and failure, the implications of Soviet foreign policy for the international system in general and the US foreign and defence policies in ...
The Soviet World
1st Edition
By Luca Pietromarchi
June 15, 2024
The Soviet World, first published in 1965, examines both the domestic society of the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and its foreign relations with the capitalist world. Khrushchev offered a challenge to the West, to compare the practical benefits to the people of communism and capitalism, and his ...
The USSR and Latin America: A Developing Relationship
1st Edition
Edited
By Eusebio Mujal-León
June 15, 2024
The USSR and Latin America (1989) is an authoritative analysis of the Soviet Union’s strategy and policy towards the region. The contributors cover a variety of topics, including Latin America’s place in Soviet strategy for the developing world, US perceptions of Soviet strategy in the region, ...
Turkism and the Soviets: The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives
1st Edition
By Charles Warren Hostler
June 15, 2024
Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations. It thoroughly examines the two factors which give this huge ethnic group its great importance – the strategic position of their ...