Russia and the World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Setting of the Stage: an Introduction

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 1-6

3. From the Russian to the Soviet Empire, 1917–91

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 7-38

4. Period of Uncertainty - 1985–91

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 39-57

5. The Fall of an Empire

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 58-72

6. A New Military Policy

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 73-94

7. An Economy in Transition

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 95-129

8. Russia and the World

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 130-149

9. Russia and NATO

   • Leo Cooper

   Pages 150-173

10. The Russian Idea - Toward a Civic Society

    • Leo Cooper

    Pages 174-194

11. Toward a Cold War or a Cold Peace?

    • Leo Cooper

    Pages 195-212

12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-222

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The collapse of communism and the disintegration of the USSR, created a new geopolitical reality, a new international environment, and a new set of international relations. This book is about Russia's foreign relations. It examines the factors that determine Russia's foreign policy, such as the economy and domestic politics. It devotes special attention to the so-called 'Russian idea' - a foreign policy determinant largely overlooked by western politicians and analysts. It attempts such an analysis by applying Russian rather than Western criteria because we are dealing here with a country with a unique culture and history.

• cold war
• communism
• desegregation
• economy
• foreign policy
• international relations
• NATO
• Policy
• politics
• russian and post-soviet politics

... this excellent book provides valuable background to the ongoing tragedy in the Russian North Caucasus. Slavic Review

• Contemporary Europe Research Centre, Centre for Russian and Euro-Asian Studies both at University of Melbourne, Australia

  Leo Cooper

LEO COOPER is Senior Research Associate at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre and at the Russian and Euro-Asian Studies Centre, University of Melbourne. He was born in Warsaw, Poland and escaped to the Soviet Union after the German occupation of Warsaw in 1939. He emigrated to Australia in 1950. He graduated as D. Phil. at Monash University in 1987 and travelled extensively throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He visited the USSR again in 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Soviet Military Power, Soviet Reforms and Beyond, Power and Politics in the Soviet Union and Stakhanovites and The Story of a Worker in the Soviet Union 1939-1946.

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