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Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision
Jiri Valenta
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In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe, Valenta shows that Soviet politics were never simple. The USSR's foreign policy response to the "Prague Spring," he contends, was the result of a complex political process conditioned by bureaucratic inertia, coalition politics, and East European pressures.
In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe, Valenta shows that Soviet politics were never simple. The USSR's foreign policy response to the "Prague Spring," he contends, was the result of a complex political process conditioned by bureaucratic inertia, coalition politics, and East European pressures.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801841170
SKU
V9780801841170
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About Jiri Valenta
Jiri Valenta is director of the Institute for Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Miami.
Reviews for Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision
Probably the best-grounded study yet done on the Soviet handling of the Czechoslovak affair of 1968. —Foreign Affairs