The Soviet Union In The Third World

Author : Jeremy Friedman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469623773
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Cold War written by Jeremy Friedman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from decolonization desperately poor and politically disorganized, Moscow and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from ten countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer accessible to researchers, this book examines how China sought to mobilize Asia, Africa, and Latin America to seize the revolutionary mantle from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union adapted to win it back, transforming the nature of socialist revolution in the process. This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the significance of this second Cold War that China and the Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash.

Author : Jerry Hough
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815719981
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for the Third World written by Jerry Hough and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last quarter century the Soviet Union and the United States have repeatedly come into conflict in various parts of the third world. During this period the most backward third world countries have sometimes proved susceptible to radical revolution, but the countries well on the way to industrialization have moved away from left-wing economic and political policies. In the longer perspective the West has been winning the struggle for the third world. The changes in those countries have been the subject of intense published debate in the Soviet Union—debate on Marxist concepts of the stages of history, on theories of economic development and revolutionary strategy, and on foreign policy. Jerry F. Hough explores the breakup of the orthodox Stalinist position on these issues and the evolution of free-swinging discussion about them. He suggests that, paradoxically, many of the old Stalinist ideas retain their strongest hold in the United States, which has not fully recognized its victory in the third world and the importance of the West's great economic power. The United States too often assumes that radical regimes will inevitably follow the Soviet path of development and that the nature of a regime determines the nature of its foreign policy. Because of these misperceptions, Hough argues the United States misses many opportunities in the third world. It emphasizes military power, even to the extent of undermining its crucial economic power, and it fails to offer the face-saving gestures that would permit Soviet retreats. Hough presents a prescription for an American policy better suited to the new realities in the third world and to the changing Soviet attitude toward them.

Author : Gregg A. Brazinsky
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631717
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Third World written by Gregg A. Brazinsky and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South." Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.

Author : Bruce D. Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521310642
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The USSR in Third World Conflicts written by Bruce D. Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough and sophisticated study of one of the most critical current issues in world politics. Bruce Porter examines Soviet policy and behaviour in Third World conflicts in the postwar period, focusing particularly on five examples: the Yemeni civil war, the Nigerian civil war, the Yom Kippur war, the Angolan civil war, and the Ogaden war. Aiming to illuminate various complex tactical and operational aspects of the USSR's policy in local conflicts, the author draws on a wide and eclectic range of sources. He pays close attention to the Soviet role as arms supplier and diplomatic actor in relation to both US policy and the dynamics of the local conflict, and he concludes with a careful consideration of the effectiveness of Soviet policy and of the implications for the United States.

Author : Roy Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521355117
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World written by Roy Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue.

Author : Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Third World written by Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier and published by New York, N.Y. : Praeger. This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228035
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow's Third World Strategy written by Alvin Z. Rubinstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Moscow's Third World Strategy, will be forthcoming.

Author : Mark Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415601835
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third World in Soviet Military Thought written by Mark Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in Third World conflicts. This work from Dr. Katz meditates upon the changing role of the USSR in post-war Third World conflicts, with particular emphasis upon the Brezhnev era and the way in which US setbacks in the Third World impacted upon Soviet foreign policy and changing attitudes to the Third World.

Author : Carol R Saivetz
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet-third World Relations written by Carol R Saivetz and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1985-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph G. Whelan
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union in the Third World written by Joseph G. Whelan and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bog med nøje analyse af Sovjets støtte til den tredie verden, støttens art og omfang samt om Sovjets politiske og strategiske hensigter med støtten, samt om dens betydning for, og indflydelse på USA's sikkerhedspolitik.