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... regime and its foreign clients . Notwithstanding the tendency toward improvement in East - West relations and in the country's strategic position generally , the defense effort was given as large a bite of national resources as in more ...
... regime and its foreign clients . Notwithstanding the tendency toward improvement in East - West relations and in the country's strategic position generally , the defense effort was given as large a bite of national resources as in more ...
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... regime was reaching out to the Soviet middle class with a " Big Deal , " predicated on material comfort in exchange for support for the regime . 34 In the wake of Stalin's death , aspirations escalated rapidly , and among all sections ...
... regime was reaching out to the Soviet middle class with a " Big Deal , " predicated on material comfort in exchange for support for the regime . 34 In the wake of Stalin's death , aspirations escalated rapidly , and among all sections ...
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... regime . Two of these stand out . One treats the Soviet Union as a country of almost supernatural strength , a ... regime is far older , stronger , and ornerier , and the average citizen is more stoically acceptive of its con- tinuance ...
... regime . Two of these stand out . One treats the Soviet Union as a country of almost supernatural strength , a ... regime is far older , stronger , and ornerier , and the average citizen is more stoically acceptive of its con- tinuance ...
Contents
Brezhnevs Ambiguous Legacy | 6 |
What Ails the Soviet System? | 32 |
Succession and the Changing Soviet Elite | 68 |
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