ABSTRACT
The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the horrors of the Second World War, amounted almost to paranoia. This important study of the years since Brezhnev shows how this obsession with national security have been at the core of Russian thinking right through the reforms of the Gorbachev era and the eventual collapse of the USSR, and continues to dominate the turbulent politics of post-Soviet Russia today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part One|48 pages
The Challenges of Russian Security
chapter 1|21 pages
Russia's Security Dilemmas
chapter 2|25 pages
The Security Interests
part Part Two|43 pages
‘New Thinking' and Gorbachev's USSR
chapter 3|20 pages
Security and Reform, 1979–85
chapter 4|21 pages
A New Way: Cold War to ‘Common Home', 1985–88
part Part Three|51 pages
The Failure of Reform
chapter 6|23 pages
Confrontation, Coup, Collapse, 1990–91
part Part Four|51 pages
The New Russia