The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

by Mark Galeotti

Overview

The geography of Russia — vast, unwieldy, exposed — and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the horrors of the Second World War, amounted almost to paranoia. This important study of the years since Brezhnev shows how this obsession with national security have been at the core of Russian thinking right through the reforms of the Gorbachev era and the eventual collapse of the USSR, and continues to dominate the turbulent politics of post-Soviet Russia today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138425392
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Challenges of Russian Security; Chapter 1 Russia’s Security Dilemmas; Chapter 2 The Security Interests; Part 2 ‘New Thinking’ and Gorbachev’s USSR; Chapter 3 Security and Reform, 1979–85; Chapter 4 A New Way: Cold War to ‘Common Home’, 1985–88; Part 3 The Failure of Reform; Chapter 5 From Perestroika to Katastroika: The End of the Reformist Security Consensus, 1988–90; Chapter 6 Confrontation, Coup, Collapse, 1990–91; Part 4 The New Russia; Chapter 7 Russia’s Security, 1991–93; Chapter 8 Russia and the World;