Western border. Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the relations of the USSR with Western neighboring states: Ken, Rupasov

The history of the Soviet Union is in many ways the story of the restoration, expansion and retention of the status of a world power. It is not surprising, therefore, that the experts in the foreign policy of the USSR focused their main attention on its interaction with the great powers, while the study of Soviet interwar policy regarding the “small” East European states was on the periphery of research interests. Nowadays, Moscow again faced the problem of building relationships with its Western neighbors. The difficulty of understanding today’s problems of East Central Europe is combined with a comparative poverty of a comprehensive analysis of the history of relations between the USSR and its Western neighbors.
Did the USSR leadership have a purposeful policy against Western neighbors? How was the Soviet “foreign policy” formed? How was the decision -making process built and how significant changes in it occurred with the USSR entry into the “Stalin era”? These problems, many …

Author
Ken Oleg Nikolaevich, Rupasov Alexander Ivanovich
Editor
Manyagin V. G.
Publisher
Algorithm, 2014