LEADER 04679oam 2200661I 450 001 9910958082803321 005 20251116212000.0 010 $a1-317-88171-0 010 $a1-138-13597-6 010 $a1-315-84005-7 010 $a1-317-88172-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315840055 035 $a(CKB)3710000000212474 035 $a(EBL)1756997 035 $a(OCoLC)885123654 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001377544 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11753631 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001377544 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11318855 035 $a(PQKB)10871648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1756997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1756997 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904134 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL639324 035 $a(OCoLC)897463192 035 $a(OCoLC)889271917 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB138415 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000212474 100 $a20180706e20142003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Soviet Union under Brezhnev /$fWilliam Tompson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aSeminar Studies In History 300 $aFirst published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited. 311 08$a1-322-08073-9 311 08$a0-582-32719-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Part One: Introduction; 1. The Soviet Union at the end of the Khrushchev Era; The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev; The New Leaders; Soviet Society a Decade After Stalin's Death; The Soviet Union and the World in 1964; Part Two: Analysis; 2. Leadership Politics; High Politics and Brezhnev's Consolidation of Power; Brezhnev as Politician: Mannequin or Machiavellian?; 'Two Brezhnevs'?; The Soviet Elite in the Brezhnev Era; 3. Policy-Making in the Brezhnev Era 327 $aBrezhnev as Policy-maker: From Consensus to Stagnation?The Role of the Politburo and Secretariat; Taking Advice: Information, Institutions and Expertise; Policy-making in Practice: The Case of Arms Control; 4. Foreign Policy from Cuba to Helsinki; The Defence Build-up of the 1960s; Managing the Bloc; War in Vietnam and US-Soviet Relations; The Road to Superpower De?tente; China; The Soviet Union and the Developing World; The Era of High De?tente; 5. From Helsinki to the Second Cold War; Arms Control and Trade; De?tente Under Strain; China; Afghanistan; Poland 327 $aConflicting Expectations and the Failure of De?tenteAfter De?tente; 6. Economic Policy under Brezhnev and Kosygin; Soviet Industry Under the Kosygin Reforms and After; The Limits of Reform; Soviet Agriculture in the Brezhnev Era; Blind Spots in Economic Policy and the 'Obsession with Growth'; 7. Economic Performance; Growth Performance Under Brezhnev and Kosygin; The Failure of the Centrally Planned Economy; De?tente, Foreign Trade and the 'Scientific and Technical Revolution'; Living Standards and Household Welfare; 8. Socio-Economic and Demographic Change; Urbanisation and Education 327 $aThe 'Social Contract' Under StrainEmerging Demographic Problems; Nationalities Policy Under Brezhnev; 9. Culture and Ideas; Culture High and Low; The Crackdown on Dissent; The Changing Nature of Dissidence; Growing Room for 'Permitted Heterodoxy'; Part Three: Assessment; 10. Brezhnev's Legacy to Gorbachev; Brezhnev's Twilight; The Andropov Interregnum; The Chernenko Interlude; State and Society at the End of the Brezhnev Era; Part Four: Documents; Glossary; Who's Who; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe Soviet Union Under Brezhnev provides an accessible post-Soviet perspective on the history of the USSR from the mid-1960's to the mid-1980's. It challenges both the 'evil empire' image of the USSR that was widespread in the early 1980's and the 'stagnation' label attached to the period by Soviet reformers under Gorbachev.The book makes use of a range of memoirs, interviews, archival documents and other sources not available before 1990 to place Brezhnev and his epoch in a broader historical context. The author: examines high politics, foreign policy and policy making explores broader 410 0$aSeminar studies in history. 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1953-1985 676 $a947/.0853 676 $a947.0853 700 $aTompson$b William J.$01869430 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958082803321 996 $aThe Soviet Union under Brezhnev$94477601 997 $aUNINA