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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781903303321

Autore

Glazov Jamie <1966->

Titolo

Canadian policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union [[electronic resource] /] / Jamie Glazov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-85971-4

9786612859717

0-7735-6972-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Foreign policy, security, and strategic studies

Disciplina

327.71047/09/046

Soggetti

Cold War

Guerre froide

Canada Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations 1945-

Canada Relations extérieures URSS

URSS Relations extérieures Canada

Canada Relations extérieures 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published for the Centre for Security and Foreign Policy Studies and The Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Canadian Soviet Policy, 1917�1953""; ""2 Canada and De-Stalinization, 1953�1956""; ""3 Tensions, Raised Hopes, and Re-Stalinization, 1956�1957""; ""4 Getting Tough with the Soviets: John Diefenbaker, 1957�1961""; ""5 The Unravelling: Conflicts of Interest in Diefenbaker's Policy after 1961""; ""6 Talking Tough without Action: The Fall of John Diefenbaker, October 1962�1963""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""

""O""""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the



wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five years later. Glazov shows that the strategy of accommodation, the main difference between Canadian and American Soviet policy, was ultimately vindicated by the eventual ascendancy of a liberal Soviet leader (Gorbachev), which led to increased East-West contact and Soviet liberalization, phenomena that led directly to the West's victory in the Cold War. Glazov's new assessment of Western policies toward Khrushchev's Russia is critical to our understanding of present-day Russia, since Gorbachev's democratization, which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, had its origins in the Khrushchev thaw. Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union provides vital information to help answer the question of how the West should deal with Russia, especially in the context of globalization - one of the most urgent issues facing Canada and the Western world.