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Soviet International Operations: Domestic Fallout?

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The Gorbachev era has been characterised, on the one hand, by the movement toward reform of the domestic economy (perestroika), which uses glasnost’ to mobilise the intelligentsia and other elements of the population behind the reform movement, and, on the other, by the introduction of ‘new thinking’ in the external relations of the USSR.1

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  1. Sallie Wise, ‘The Soviet Public and the War in Afghanistan: Perceptions, Prognoses and Information Sources’, SAAOR Analysis Report 4–85, June 1985.

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Parta, R.E. (1990). Soviet International Operations: Domestic Fallout?. In: Ra’anan, U., Lukes, I. (eds) Gorbachev’s USSR. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11705-5_8

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