TY - BOOK AU - Oudenaren,John van ED - Project Air Force (U.S.) ED - Rand Corporation. ED - United States. TI - The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: options for the 1980s and beyond SN - 0833005650 (pbk.) AV - DJK45.S65 V36 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - Santa Monica, CA PB - RAND KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Relations KW - Soviet Union N1 - "March 1984."; "Project Air Force"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format N2 - This report examines the importance of Eastern Europe to the USSR, the Soviet approach toward the region in the past, and possible future short-term and longer-term Soviet policies toward Eastern Europe. It examines dilemmas facing the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the Soviet "preferred vision" for a European order that would overcome these dilemmas. It assesses the collapse of the Brezhnev policy toward Eastern Europe, Soviet assessments of its causes, and likely responses UR - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3136/ ER -