Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision

by Jiri Valenta and Professor Jiri Valenta

Book Overview

In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe, Valenta shows that Soviet politics were never simple. The USSR's foreign...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841178
• ISBN13: 9780801841170
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher