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The Soviet Union Under Brezhnev

by William J. Tompson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780582327191
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 198
  • Original Price: GBP 42.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 368 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Russia / General, Archaeology, and Modern / 20th Century / General

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The 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 social, cultural and demographic trends
  • presents a picture of Soviet society in the crucial decades prior to the upheavals and crises of the late 1980 s

While stopping well short of a full-scale rehabilitation of Brezhnev, Tompson rejects the prevailing image of the Soviet leader as a colourless non-entity, drawing attention to Brezhnev s real political skills, as well as his faults, and to the systemic roots of many of the problems he faced.

William Tompson is Reader in Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

William Tompson is Reader in Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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