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The Soviet Concept of 'Limited Sovereignty' from Lenin to Gorbachev

The Brezhnev Doctrine

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Robert A. Jones

    1. Department of Public Sector Administration and Law, Sheffield City Polytechnic, England

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. INTRODUCTION

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 1-19

  3. THE GENEALOGY OF THE SOVIET CONCEPTION OF SOVEREIGNTY

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 20-44

  4. SOVEREIGNTY AND STALIN’S POLICY TOWARDS EASTERN EUROPE

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 45-60

  5. EARLY POSTWAR SOVIET THEORIES OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 61-77

  6. MARXIST—LENINIST DOCTRINE AND THE SOVIET THEORY OF SOVEREIGNTY

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 78-95

  7. THE IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSION

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 96-111

  8. CHALLENGES TO SOVIET REGIONAL HEGEMONY IN THE 1950s AND THE SOVIET RESPONSE

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 112-139

  9. ‘SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM’ AND THE WARSAW PACT INTERVENTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 140-173

  10. SOVIET ‘CORRELATION OF FORCES’ ANALYSIS AND AFGHANISTAN

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 174-192

  11. THE SOVIET PROXY INTERVENTION IN POLAND

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 193-210

  12. SUPERPOWER DOCTRINES OF INTERVENTION: COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 211-229

  13. CHALLENGES TO SOVIET DOCTRINES OF SOVEREIGNTY IN THE 1980s

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 230-256

  14. CONCLUSION

    • Robert A. Jones
    Pages 257-261

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 312-337
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The book examines the origins, development and contemporary significance of the Soviet doctrine of 'limited sovereignty' ('Brezhnev Doctrine'), with particular reference to the Doctrine's implications for the Soviet Union's relations with Eastern Europe. The author identifies and considers the multiple functions served by the Soviet Union's essentially dualistic or 'bi-axial' approach to sovereignty, which embraces notions derived from both general international law and from Soviet Marxist-Leninist doctrine. The book also includes a comparative analysis of the US 'Monroe Doctrine'. The author argues that, although in the Gorbachev era of 'new thinking', the Soviet doctrine of sovereignty may be developing a 'third axis', Western predictions of the imminent or actual demise of the 'Brezhnev Doctrine' are premature.

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  • Department of Public Sector Administration and Law, Sheffield City Polytechnic, England

    Robert A. Jones

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