Europe And The Superpowers by Steven Bethlen

Author:Steven Bethlen [Bethlen, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429716690
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

4. Joseph Kraft, “Letter From Moscow,” The New Yorker, January 31, 1983.

5. Cf. V.V. Aspaturian, “The Evolution of Soviet National Security Decision-Making Under Stalin,” in J. Valenta and W. Potter (editors), Soviet Decision-Making for National Security (Allen and Unwin, forthcoming, 1983).

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Eastern Europe at the Crossroads: Contradictory Tendencies of Subservience and Autonomy

Trond Gilberg

Introduction

The relationship between the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), on the one hand, and the states and ruling parties of Eastern Europe, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly complicated as the decade of the 1980s matures. Western scholarship on the topic reflects this increasing complexity. While in the 1950s and early 1960s most scholars emphasized the voluntary or enforced subservience of the East European states and parties to the Soviet state and the CPSU, and research in the second half of the 1960s and the decade of the seventies stressed nationalism and the quest for autonomy, the focus now is on the fact that subservience exists in certain fields, and a search by the East Europeans for autonomy continues in other areas of the relationship. Add to this the fact that the subservience-autonomy relationships are different for elites, subelites, and the general mass of the population; consider also the fact that each state and party in the region has a set of relations with Moscow that is, at least in part, unique. The resulting complexities are not easily unravelled.1

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