Moscow’s dual foreign policy: Soviet ideologized foreign policy and the pursuit of all-European collective security 1954-1989

DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics

Zaharieva, Ioana ; Marshall, Alexander

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Humanities

关键词: Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy, European Collective Security, Common European Home,Cold War, Hungarian Revolution, Polish October,Prague Spring, Polish Crisis, 1989 Peaceful Revolutions, Gorbachev, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Molotov, Litvinov, Warsaw Pact, NATO;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7216/1/2015zaharievamres.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

The dissertation argues that from the 1950s to the late 1980s, the Soviet Union pursued two often contradictory foreign policies in Europe– one, ideologized foreign policy, Moscow’s commitment to which will be explored though case studies, and another policy of peaceful coexistence exemplified by the Soviet long-term campaign for all-European collective security system. Moscow often had to prioritize one policy over the other and was not totally committed to either. I demonstrate that in the early 1980s, with the fall of détente and the eruption of the Polish crisis, the two policies became incompatible and the Soviets were forced to choose between the two, which ultimately contributed to the end of the Cold War.