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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aDJK45.S65 _bA86 1991
100	1		_aAsmus, Ronald D. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSoviet foreign policy and the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe / _cRonald D. Asmus, J. F. Brown, Keith Crane.
264		1	_aSanta Monica, CA : _bRAND, _c1991.
300			_axi, 177 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"National Defense Research Institute"--Cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aThis report analyzes the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989 and assesses the role of changes in Soviet foreign policy in precipitating this collapse. It finds that the preceding 40 years of economic and social failure by the Communist regimes, the illegitimacy of Communist rule, the consolidation of societal opposition, loss of confidence in the ruling elites, and the improvement in East-West relations created the conditions leading to the collapse of Communist rule. However, the change in Soviet foreign policy under Gorbachev was the precipitating event. Once change began, the removal of the Communist leadership in one country led to upheavals in others. The Soviet leadership did not foresee the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe; rather, it believed that the old regimes would be replaced by reformers. It also failed to see the unification of Germany as an outcome of the collapse of the Honecker regime. In the future, Soviet influence in Eastern Europe will be diminished but will not ebb to the low levels of the pre-World War II era. Economic and mutual security concerns will continue to tie Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union (or its successor), although much more loosely than in the past.
530			_aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aEurope, Eastern _xForeign relations _zSoviet Union.
651		0	_aEurope, Eastern _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989.
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xForeign relations _y1985-1991.
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xForeign relations _zEurope, Eastern.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aBrown, J. F. _q(James F.), _d1928-2009 _eauthor.
700	1		_aCrane, Keith, _d1953- _eauthor.
710			_aRand eBooks.
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