Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures : why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ofira Seliktar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seliktar, Ofira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

Soviet Union.

Politics and government.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.

Physical Description:

xiv, 281 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]

Contents:

Theories of political change and prediction of change : methodological problems

Oligarchic petrification or pluralistic transformation : paradigmatic views of the Soviet Union in the 1970s

Paradigms and the debate on relations with the Soviet Union : détente, new internationalism, and neoconservatism

The Reagan administration and the Soviet interregnum : accelerating the demise of the communist empire

Acceleration : tinkering around the edges, 1985-1986

Perestroika : systemic change, 1987-1989

The unintended consequences of radical transformation : losing control of the revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991

Reflections on predictive failures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-262) and index.

ISBN:

0765614642

OCLC:

54356571