ABSTRACT
The policy of the Soviet Union toward Latin America ever since the October Revolution was implemented through two fundamental channels: interstate relations with the various governments and relations between the Soviet Communist party and the Communist parties of the region. After Nikita Khrushchev was deposed in 1964, Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev initiated a new phase in the relations between the USSR and Latin America. This new phase incorporated elements of former policies but placed them in a more comprehensive and coherent framework, giving them a symmetry and stability that permitted them to continue for almost two decades. Soviet trade relations with Argentina date back quite some time; between 1920 and 1925 the Commercial Office of the USSR in Montevideo, Uruguay, carried out a grain purchase of 125,000 tons of wheat. Soviet nuclear cooperation allowed Argentina to operate in Latin America with a technical assistance policy in nuclear matters.
