The Scientific-Technological Revolution and Soviet Foreign Policy explains the effects of the worldwide scientific-technological revolution (STR) on Soviet foreign policy under "the collective leadership" of Leonid Brezhnev. Organized into five chapters, this book carefully examines Soviet views of the relationship of STR with political, economic, and military dimensions of "peaceful coexistence" and "detente" This text also evaluates the impact of scientific discoveries, technological innovations, foreign economic relations, strategic arms development, and instability in Third World countries. Some of the functions performed by Soviet perspectives on scientific-technical change and international politics are also reported.

Scientific-Technological Revolution and Soviet Foreign Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Hoffmann, Erik P.

Politics & Government

Pergamon Pr

The conduct of Soviet foreign policy

Anthropology

Aldine¨Atherton

The purpose of this anthology is to deepen Western understanding of the sources and substance of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. Authoritative analysts here explore significant issues in Soviet foreign relations from the era of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War to the period of reform that preceded the final collapse of the Soviet system. The volume is designed for courses in Soviet political history, diplomatic history, comparative foreign policy, and the mainstream of international relations.

Soviet Foreign Policy: Classic and Contemporary Issues

History

Fleron, Frederic J.

Europe

de Gruyter

Postcommunist Studies And Political Science: Methodology And Empirical Theory In Sovietology

Fleron, Jr.

Routledge

<p>Serious stock-taking is in progress now among practitioners of whathas been called Sovietology, meaning studies of the Union of SovietSocialist Republics. The reason is that the field for the most part hadnot been expecting what happened in 1991: The USSR collapsed andwent out of existence as a unified state system governing a sixth ofthe world's territory, having allowed its East European empire tofree itself from Soviet dominance somewhat earlier.It might be said in defense of Sovietology that, by the beginningof the 1980s, it understood that economic and political crises werebrewing in the Soviet Union and its outer empire. But the field asa whole failed to grasp the full depth of the systemic crisis in SovietRussia and the destructive or self-destructive potentialities inherentin it. As the editors of this valuable volume write in the Introduction:"Sovietology was not prepared for perestroika and postcommunism."</p>

Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union

Social Sciences

Cornell Univ Pr

Post-communist Studies And Political Science: Methodology And Empirical Theory In Sovietology

Beset by the USSR's closed nature and the paucity of reliable data, scholars have used unique methods to study a political system they claimed was completely different from any other on earth. However, in the first extended reassessment of Sovietology in over two decades, Frederic Fleron and Erik Hoffmann argue that the isolation of the field from the social sciences has diminished analysts' ability to explain the dramatic changes in their area of study. The editors' collection of key essays elucidates Sovietology's theories and methodologies and underscores the need to adapt them to the rapidly shifting conditions in the USSR during the 1980s and in its successor countries during the 1990s.This important anthology is the only book to systematically review the state of Sovietology and to provide practical suggestions for new methodological approaches and conceptual orientations for all analysts of postcommunism. The book's stimulating diversity of views will make it required reading for political scientists, area specialists, policy advisers, and students who hope to understand the Communist past and the transition to a post-Communist future.

Fleron, Jr., Frederic J.

Americas

Westview Press

<p>Beset by the USSR's closed nature and the paucity of reliable data, scholars have used unique methods to study a political system they claimed was completely different from any other on earth. However, in the first extended reassessment of Sovietology in over two decades, Frederic Fleron and Erik Hoffmann argue that the isolation of the field from the social sciences has diminished analysts' ability to explain the dramatic changes in their area of study. The editors' collection of key essays elucidates Sovietology's theories and methodologies and underscores the need to adapt them to the rapidly shifting conditions in the USSR during the 1980s and in its successor countries during the 1990s.This important anthology is the only book to systematically review the state of Sovietology and to provide practical suggestions for new methodological approaches and conceptual orientations for all analysts of postcommunism. The book's stimulating diversity of views will make it required reading for political scientists, area specialists, policy advisers, and students who hope to understand the Communist past and the transition to a post-Communist future.</p>

Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in the Advanced Industrial Era (Duke Press Policy Studies)

Business & Money

Laird, Robbin F.

Economics

Duke Univ Pr

Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in the Advanced Industrial Era

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hoffmann, Erik P.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Hoffmann, Erik P.