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Soviet policy towards the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America has undergone substantial expansion and change during the three decades since Khrushchev first initiated efforts to break out of the international isolation in which the USSR still found itself in the immediate post-Stalin years. Over the course of the past thrity years the Soviet Union has expanded significantly both the geographical range of its involvement with developing countries, and the intensity of its political, military and economic activities. Moreover the USSR has increasingly acted in consort with 'allies' such as Cuba and the countries of Eastern Europe. The studies in this volume, first published in 1988, examine various aspects of Soviet and East European policy towards the Third World

Eine wachsende Differenzierung in wichtigen Aspekten der osteuropäischen Wirtschaftssysteme verbietet ein generalisierendes Urteil. Dennoch kann - zu Beginn der achtziger Jahre - für die UdSSR vermutet werden, daß eine zweifellos erhebliche zurückgestaute Inflation das Ergebnis kurzfristigen politischen Drucks ist, der die geplanten Proportionen der Entwicklung immer wieder sprengt. Für Teilbereiche wie Forschung und Entwicklung oder die Landwirtschaft, aber auch in der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Analyse werden Grenzen der Steuerbarkeit einer immer komplexer werdenden sowjetischen Wirtschaft deutlich. Die Möglichkeit eines Ausbrechens aus der "Strategie des Durchwurstelns" und einer "grundsätzlichen Alternative" sind skeptisch zu beurteilen.

The late twentieth century witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Eastern Europe sprang free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the US-sponsored resolution in the UN permitting the use of force in the Gulf against one of its former allies. Moreover, the leadership's quest for stability during a time of rapid technological, economic and political change seriously weakened the position of the Soviet Union on the international scene. This volume assesses those dramatic changes. It chronicles the debate within the Soviet Union over the success and validity of perestroika and the 'new thinking' on foreign affairs, the policy alternatives supported by various groups within the elite and their likely impact on future policies