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For decades U.S. foreign policy was focused on battling the menace of Soviet communism. Now, seemingly overnight, the implacable foe has collapsed. Its foremost symbol, the image of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, has been publicly disgraced, and the slogan "Lenin lives!" has given way to calls for the removal and burial of the corpse that has lain on display in its Red Square mausoleum for more than half a century. How did these extraordinary events come about? Usually such swift and radical change is accompanied by violent upheaval. In this book, political psychologist Steven Kull argues that only a revolution in the thinking of the country's top leaders can explain the rapidity and relative peacefulness of the recent Soviet political transformation. Kull's analysis, based on probing interviews with members of the policymaking elites as well as on a careful reading of the public record, reveals the painful process by which these Soviets came to realize and accept the failure of Leninist ideology. More significantly, Kull shows how Soviet leaders have had a series of key insights in recent years that gradually have been forged into a new ideology. Dubbed "new thinking," this ideology offer

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Author

Steven Kull

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813315010

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning