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Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968

Anatomy of a Decision

Jiri Valenta author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Oct '91

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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.

Probably the best-grounded study yet done on the Soviet handling of the Czechoslovak affair of 1968.
Foreign Affairs

ISBN: 9780801841170

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 369g

288 pages

revised and expanded edition