Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision

Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision image
ISBN-10:

0801841178

ISBN-13:

9780801841170

Author(s): Valenta, Jiri
Edition: Revised & enlarged
Released: Nov 01, 1991
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
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Description:

In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe, Valenta shows that Soviet politics were never simple. The USSR's foreign policy response to the "Prague Spring," he contends, was the result of a complex political process conditioned by bureaucratic inertia, coalition politics, and East European pressures.












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