Introduction Past as Prologue: Soviet Policy Toward Eastern Europe, 1945-1985 Forces Impelling Change East European Policy as a Function of Domestic Reform and Politics Internal Ideological Change and Its External Implications The Rational Actor Revisited Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
Chafetz provides a fresh analysis of why Moscow redefined Soviet interests in Eastern Europe and an explanation of the decision not to use military force to shore up the disintegrating bloc.
GLENN R. CHAFETZ, former Acting Assistant Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Virginia, is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Memphis State University. A specialist in theories of international relations and Russian foreign policy, he has published in International Relations.
?Chafetz describes the erosion of Soviet ideology which ultimately
washed away the last meager claims to the legitimacy of the empire.
. . . This is a most useful summarization of events.?-Journal of
Baltic Studies
?Glenn Chafetz has done a first-rate job of weaving together a
wealth of complex domestic and foreign policy interactions. His
clear explanations of his own methodology make the book
particularly useful for graduate seminars. It is also a must for
those of us struggling to teach undergraduate courses on
post-Soviet Russian foreign policy.?-The Russian Review
?This is a very well documented and thoughtful analysis of the
political transformations taking place in Eastern Europe, mainly in
the former Soviet Union. The author is well read in the pertinent
political literature, Western and Soviet. . . . He is well versed
in the methods and tools of his profession and uses them to the
utmost. . . . Advanced undergraduate; graduate.?-Choice
"Chafetz describes the erosion of Soviet ideology which ultimately
washed away the last meager claims to the legitimacy of the empire.
. . . This is a most useful summarization of events."-Journal of
Baltic Studies
"Glenn Chafetz has done a first-rate job of weaving together a
wealth of complex domestic and foreign policy interactions. His
clear explanations of his own methodology make the book
particularly useful for graduate seminars. It is also a must for
those of us struggling to teach undergraduate courses on
post-Soviet Russian foreign policy."-The Russian Review
"This is a very well documented and thoughtful analysis of the
political transformations taking place in Eastern Europe, mainly in
the former Soviet Union. The author is well read in the pertinent
political literature, Western and Soviet. . . . He is well versed
in the methods and tools of his profession and uses them to the
utmost. . . . Advanced undergraduate; graduate."-Choice
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