Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968
Anatomy of a Decision
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:1st Oct '91
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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