Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union by Thomas Crump

Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union by Thomas Crump

Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin. During Brezhnev’s time Soviet power seemed at its height and increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and successful in its space missions, and the Soviet Union's influence reached into all part of the world. Yet, as this book, which provides a comprehensive overview and reassessment of Brezhnev’s life, early political career and career as leader, shows, the seeds of decline were sown in Brezhnev's time. There was a huge over-commitment of resources to the Soviet industrial-military complex and to massively expensive foreign policy overstretch. At the same time there was a failure to deliver on citizens' rising expectations, and an overconfident ignoring of dissidents and their demands. The book will be of great interest to Russian specialists, and also to scholars of international relations and world history.

Thomas Crump was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and is the author of twelve books.

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ISBN 13	9781138687349
ISBN 10	1138687340
Titre	Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union
Auteur	Thomas Crump
Série	Routledge Studies In The History Of Russia And Eastern Europe
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Année de publication	2016-04-24
Nombre de pages	256
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