Journal ArticleDOI
Political Development in Eastern Europe
Reads0
Chats0
About:
This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1977-01-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Politics.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The empire strikes back: the evolution of the Eastern bloc from a Soviet asset to a Soviet liability
TL;DR: The structure of the Soviet bloc would appear to be ideal for the maximization of Soviet domestic and foreign interests as mentioned in this paper, but the actual ledger of Soviet gains and losses from control over Eastern Europe, however, reveals a different picture.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Political Economy of the Brezhnev Era: The Rise and Fall of Corporatism
TL;DR: When Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964, the Soviet empire consisted of Cuba and six reliable satellites in Eastern Europe, the bloc was dominated politically and economically by the Soviet Union, and East-West interactions were kept to a minimum.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Soviet Offensive in Europe: The Schlieffen Plan Revisited?
TL;DR: A substantial literature has developed about the conventional military balance in Europe and the respective strategies of NATO and the Warsaw Pact as mentioned in this paper, and a certain asymmetry exists in this literature; students of the subject concur in its content but disagree as to its wisdom.
Journal ArticleDOI
Modernization and Participation in the Leninist Developmental Strategy
TL;DR: The early stages of the Soviet Union achieved its stability not by institutionalizing participation but by forcing departicipation and substituting a functionally distinct form of political activity as mentioned in this paper, and the ability of enlisted involvement to block the growth of participatory pressures tends to decline in later stages of development.
Journal ArticleDOI
Administrative Reform and Modernization in Post-Mao China
TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that many Chinese leaders regard administrative reform as inseparable from the economic and technical advances underway and moreover capable of independently yielding a significantly improved economic performance.