As perestroika has dramatically altered the political climate in the Soviet Union, so too has Mikhail Gorbachev's agenda of reform modified America's disposition towards its superpower rival. Yet how do the Soviet people and policy-makers perceive the United States and its political and socio-economic structure? How do American politics and society appear when scrutinized by Marxist-Leninist theory? How do Soviet ideologues and intellectuals struggle to place American successes within a rigid ideological framework? In this work, Richard Mills examines the ways in which Soviet analysts interpret American domestic and foreign politics and the complex factors that shape continuities and changes in the Soviet framework.
| ISBN: | 9780195062601 |
| Publication date: | 13th September 1990 |
| Author: | Richard M. (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Mills |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
International relations Political ideologies and movements |