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The Soviet study of international relations

Allen Lynch
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword by Curt Gasteyger (page xi)
  • Acknowledgements (page xiv)
  • INTRODUCTION: THE "NEW POLITICAL THINKING" AND SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY: INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES (page xv)
    • Motive forces behind the "new political thinking" (page xix)
    • Leadership support for the "new thinking" (page xxii)
    • How have the parameters of discussion changed? (page xxx)
    • How has the foreign-policy specialists changed? (page xxxvi)
    • Conclusion (page xxxviii)
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION (page 1)
    • A note on methodology (page 6)
  • 1 THE BACKGROUND: MARX, LENIN, STALIN AND THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (page 8)
    • Marx and Engels (page 8)
    • Lenin: "imperialism" (page 14)
    • Stalin: "socialism in one country" (page 18)
    • Stalin's dispute with Varga (page 20)
  • 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET POLITICAL STUDIES (page 26)
  • 3 APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (page 32)
    • Introduction (page 32)
    • The early Brezhnev period (page 34)
    • Toward a Soviet sociology of international relations (page 49)
    • Substantive applications (page 60)
    • Conclusion (page 68)
  • 4 THE SYSTEMS APPROACH AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (page 71)
    • Soviet critiques of Western systems methods (page 72)
    • The development of a Soviet systems approach (page 78)
  • 5 THE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM: THE SYSTEMS LEVEL (page 89)
    • Criteria of evaluation: power, correlation of forces, and the balance of power (page 89)
    • The new correlation of forces and emerging multipolarities (page 95)
    • The place of Soviet-American relations in the international system (page 104)
  • 6 CRITICAL SUBSYSTEMS (page 108)
    • Inter-"imperialist" relations (page 108)
    • Inter-socialist relations (page 116)
    • International organization (page 124)
    • Summary (page 128)
  • 7 THE SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL REVOLUTION AND THE CHANGING FACE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (page 131)
    • A new factor in international relations: the scientific technical revolution (page 133)
  • CONCLUSION (page 140)
  • Notes (page 149)
  • Bibliography (page 174)
  • Index (page 195)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
FA 66.5 (Summer. 1988): 1132 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043637
SR 48.3 (Autumn. 1989): 501-502 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2499017
APSR 82.3 (Sep. 1988): 1041-1042 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1962558
SEER 67.2 (Apr. 1989): 329-330 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4210016
IA 66.4 (Autumn. 1988): 704 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2626121
JP 51.3 (Aug. 1989): 798-801 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2131529
SS 40.2 (Apr. 1988): 328-329 http://www.jstor.org/stable/151116
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Published: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521330558 (hardcover)
  • 9780521367639 (paper)
  • 9781139239929 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Russia & Eastern
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