Soviet Economic Warfare
Author: Robert Loring Allen
Publisher: Washington : Public Affairs Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Loring Allen
Publisher: Washington : Public Affairs Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shu Guang Zhang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780804739306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of such economic weapons? This book examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet alliance.
Author: Murray Wolfson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1349120057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty years. Thirdly, although this hostility was expressed in political, ideological and military terms, the decisive battle was fought in economic terms as each nation devoted resources to unproductive military purposes. Finally, the end of the cold war came with the collapse of the dysfunctional Soviet economy. Although, the Soviets lost the cold war, in the light of the ascendancy of its competitors, the United States did not win it.
Author: Chris Miller
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-10-13
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1469630184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.
Author: Boris Ėmmanuilovich Baron Nolʹde
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 256
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