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None of the perplexing problems of contemporary international affairs has given rise to more confusing discussion than the relationship of Soviet ideology to the foreign policy of the USSR. The very vagueness of the term "Soviet ideology," or "Communist ideology" (and are they synonymous?), the uncertainty to what extent this uncertain force motivates the makers of Soviet policies, have compounded our difficulties in understanding the behavior of one of the world's two superpowers. Are Russia's rulers motivated by cynical power politics? Are they ideological fanatics? Is tlie content of their ideology the gospel of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, or something else? Questions can be compounded ad infinitum.

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 foreign policies as much as his domestic policies aimed to prove the Soviet Union's economic superiority to the United States.

AbstractThis essay introduces the five articles that comprise the special issue of Soviet and Post-Soviet Review on "World War II in Soviet and Post-Soviet Memory." It highlights the variety of means employed by the contributors to explain and assess the construction, reconfi guration, and uncanny persistence of the Great Patriotic War in individual, local, and national narratives. The essay also suggests pathways for future research.

Soviet Success (1947) deals with Soviet Russia after the Second World War. The author met Stalin, Molotov and other leading personalities in Russia, and here records his conversations with them in full detail. The book looks at the destruction caused by the war, and the state of the economy and political life in its aftermath. It also is particularly informative on the family, art, literature and cultural life of Soviet Russia.

1980s. Contents: Soviet interests and motivations; Areas of progress; Areas of stalemate; Assessment and prognosis.

Impact of glasnost and perestroika on foreign policy, chiefly; 4 articles. Contents: The party, the KGB, and Soviet policy-making, by Amy Knight; Informal groups in the USSR, by Vera Tolz; Soviet foreign-policy think tanks, by Eberhard Schneider; Soviet literature under Gorbachev, by Mary Seton-Watson.

Orignially published in Russian, Moscow, 1973. ; Mode of access: Internet.