Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union, Thomas Crump
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Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union, Thomas Crump
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union
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electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
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876288665
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Thomas Crump
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ProQuest Ebook Central
Table Of Contents
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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