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EXAMINATION OF THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMATIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SOVIET DOMESTIC POLITICS AND CHANGING FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPTS. THE NEW THINKING IN SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY ADVOCATED BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND HIS ADVISORS CANNOT BE GRASPED WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF SOVIET IDEOLOGICAL TERMS OF REFERENCE. NEW THINKING DOES NOT DENOTE DE-IDEOLOGIZATION. RATHER, GORBACHEV'S FOREIGN POLICY EFFORTS INDICATE A MODIFICATION OF THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY IDEOLOGY. THESE MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN PROMPTED BY CHANGES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND BY A REASSESSMENT OF DOMESTIC PRIORITIES.