Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform:The Great Challenge

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CUP Archive, 1990 M06 29 - 319 pages
In this comparative analysis of Soviet political, economic and security policies in Eastern Europe, the author examines whether Gorbachev will be able to meet the "great challenge" of the reform and modernization of socialism in both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Soviet Interests and Perspectives
9
Soviet Interests in Eastern Europe
25
East European Conceptions
40
History as Politics in the Bloc
47
9
66
16
77
The Links That Bind
81
Social Issues
159
Economic Issues
169
Prospects
193
The Emerging Debate
201
New Thinking and Eastern Europe
207
Moscow the German Question and a
222
Epilogue Can or Should Europe Overcome
228
At What Cost?
238

Military and Security Cooperation
99
Kto Kovo?
109
Beyond Coercion Can Eastern Europe
127
Legitimacy and Consensus
139
Conclusion
148
Chronology of East European Events
251
Soviet and East European Leadership
290
East European Communist Parties Their
296
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About the author (1990)

Karen Dawisha was born Karen Hurst in Colorado Springs, Colorado on December 2, 1949. She studied Russian politics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received a doctoral degree at the London School of Economics. She taught at Miami University in Oxford from 2000 until her retirement in September 2016. She wrote or co-wrote several books including Soviet Foreign Policy Towards Egypt; Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform: The Great Challenge; and Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? She died from lung cancer on April 11, 2018 at the age of 68.

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TitleEastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform:The Great Challenge
AuthorKaren Dawisha
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherCUP Archive, 1990
ISBN0521386527, 9780521386524
Length319 pages
  
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