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" Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union / "
Thomas Crump
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BL
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628502
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Crump, Thomas
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Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union /\ Thomas Crump
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Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ;; 17
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xvi, 233 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780415690737 (hardback)
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: 0415690730 (hardback)
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9781315883786 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-221) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The Ukrainian crucible -- Brezhnev and World War II -- The death of Stalin and rise of Khrushchev -- Brezhnev's domestic politics -- Brezhnev's life at the top -- Confronting the military industrial complex -- Dissidence and human rights -- International politics: peacemaker under pressure -- The Soviet bloc, the Brezhnev doctrine and Ostpolitik -- US presidents and the nuclear arms race -- The mixed blessings brought by Brezhnev's new German friendship: the Helsinki Conference and its aftermath -- Brezhnev's blind spot: Africa and Middle East -- South and Central Asia: challenges that Brezhnev could not ignore -- Brezhnev's confrontation with China -- Brezhnev and the fall of the Soviet state -- Downhill all the way
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Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich,1906-1982
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Soviet Union, Politics and government, 1953-1985
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Soviet Union, Foreign relations, 1953-1975
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Soviet Union, Foreign relations, 1975-1985
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947.085/3
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DK275.B7C78 2014
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