TY - BOOK
T1 - Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War
AU - Radchenko, Sergey
N1 - Publication date: March 2014
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This book examines Soviet policy towards Asia in the 1980s. It brings bilateral narratives – accounts of Soviet relationships with China, India, Japan, and other Asian players – into a metanarrative showing how the Soviet leaders, from Brezhnev to Gorbachev, saw Asia as a theater for superpower contestation, and why their regional policies ultimately failed. The book is based on multilingual research in the archives of Russia, China, India, and other Asian and European countries, and on interviews with policymakers, including several presidents and prime ministers. Weaving these untapped sources into a novel interpretative framework required years of intensive research and writing.
AB - This book examines Soviet policy towards Asia in the 1980s. It brings bilateral narratives – accounts of Soviet relationships with China, India, Japan, and other Asian players – into a metanarrative showing how the Soviet leaders, from Brezhnev to Gorbachev, saw Asia as a theater for superpower contestation, and why their regional policies ultimately failed. The book is based on multilingual research in the archives of Russia, China, India, and other Asian and European countries, and on interviews with policymakers, including several presidents and prime ministers. Weaving these untapped sources into a novel interpretative framework required years of intensive research and writing.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/12666
M3 - Book
SN - 9780199938773
SN - 0199938776
T3 - Oxford Studies in International History
BT - Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -