The Soviet Empire Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Adam B. Ulam

ISBN-13: 9780367311452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 263 str.

Sanford R. Lieberman; David E. Powell; Carol R. Saivetz

Opis

This volume reflects on the unique and central features of the Soviet empire during its period of consolidation in Europe and speculates on the long-term effects of its collapse. It reconsiders subjects that have absorbed Adam B. Ulam's attention in his own work.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Truman Doctrine and the Rhetoric of Totalitarianism* -- Stalinism in Romania: A Preliminary Discussion of Stalin, Ceausescu, and Totalitarianism -- The Re-Sovietization of Formerly Occupied Areas of the USSR During World War II -- The Soviet Gulag in Eastern Germany, 1945-50* -- The Ideology of Imperative Planning: Marxism and the Ideological Consequences of Market Reform* -- Environmental Problems in Moscow -- From Confrontation to Cooperation: Soviet Foreign Policy in the Mirror of Ideology -- From Rapallo to Reunification: Russia and Germany in the Twentieth Century -- Military Power in Russian National Security Policy -- The Emergence of Russian Foreign Policy: Political Debates and Russia's National Interest -- Beyond the Cold War: Prospects for Central European Security and Cooperation in a Post-Communist World*

O autorze

Sanford R. Lieberman, David E. Powell, Carol R. Saivetz