The Imagery of Soviet Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the Russian Empire

by Christopher Smart

This study explores how Soviet leaders shaped the image their state cast since the death of Stalin. The fact that the leadership's legitimacy rested upon values and aims that were fundamentally at odds with the international system imposed a cumbersome task of image management. Each leader approached this task with a different strategy, and each strategy had direct consequences for Soviet behavior abroad and for the coherence of the Soviet state at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275948579
• ISBN13: 9780275948573
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"