Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures : why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ofira Seliktar.
| Author/creator |
Seliktar, Ofira |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, |
| Description | xiv, 281 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-262) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004002477 |
| ISBN | 0765614642 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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