Abstract
In the ‘long decade’ of the Brezhnev doctrine, between successful ‘normalisation’ in Czechoslovakia and the accession to power in the Soviet Union of Mikhail Gorbachev, neo-Stalinism ruled triumphant. The Eastern European regimes were politically stable, secure beneath the Soviet umbrella. International acceptance of the ‘actually existing socialism’ world system was confirmed by the Helsinki Final Act of 1975: and the economies appeared to be sound and to have staved off the ‘oil-shock’ from which the rest of the world had suffered. Growth rates in the 1966–70 plan period had been good. Those for 1971–5 were even better, although the considerable trade deficit run up by the region with the West suggested caution.1
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Swain, G., Swain, N. (1993). Neo-Stalinism Triumphant. In: Eastern Europe since 1945. The Making of the Modern World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22656-6_8
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