Author: Robert W. Lambert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arms control Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
The study is a historical analysis of Soviet disarmament policy from 1922, when Moscow first began to show serious interest in disarmament, to 1931, when arrangements for the Disarmament Conference were completed. In order to present the subject in the historical context of the period, certain information was included on other aspects of Soviet foreign policy, domestic developments in the USSR, and the attitudes of other major powers toward disarament, security, and related problems. Soviet policy is summarized and the author's conclusions are set forth at the end of the narrative. Texts of key Soviet papers and a bibliography are included.
Author: Hugh D. Phillips Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429718977 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
This is the first complete biography of Maxim Litvinov, a Bolshevik revolutionary who began his professional life running guns into Tsarist Russia and eventually became the leading Soviet diplomat in the turbulent 1930s. His was a spectacular career, spanning some of the most dramatic decades of the twentieth century and including an unsuccessful effort to contain Hitler with the cooperation of the Western Allies. Litvinov's subsequent replacement as Soviet foreign minister by Molotov in 1939 signaled the dramatic shift in Soviet foreign policy that led directly to the outbreak of World War II. After the war, Litvinov's final public act was to bluntly warn the West of the danger presented by Stalin's cold war policies-a threat Litvinov even dared to compare with that posed by Hitler a decade earlier. Litvinov's career ended in the relative obscurity from which it had sprung, his consistently pro-Western policies no longer consonant with the reemerging Soviet hostility toward the West. Passing away from remarkably natural causes in 1951, Litvinov left behind a political legacy that lay dormant for forty years until its recent revival by Mikhail Gorbachev. Between the Revolution and the West is based on extensive research in the Soviet Union and the West, including previously unavailable archives and interviews with Litvinov's friends and family. Hugh Phillips' work casts light not only on Litvinov the man but also on Soviet foreign policy during crucial and dramatic times.
Author: Philip Towle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000261832 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
This book, first published in 1983, examines the role that arms control has to play, alongside defence and deterrence, in stabilising East-West relations and reducing tensions during the Cold War. Arms control agreements were designed in the attempt to achieve parity between the nuclear forces of the superpowers, without making war more likely. A danger of confrontation between the USSR and the USA came from their involvement in Third World conflicts, and this arena is also discussed. The diplomatic approaches of the Soviet Union, the Third World and the West, and their aims in arms control, are also analysed.
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