num_pages: 289
description: From Simon &amp; Schuster, Soviet Power is Jonathan Steele's exploration on the Kremlin's foreign policy from Brezhnev to Chernenko.This analysis points to a pattern of thwarted strategy and failed objectives, which has weakened the influence of the Soviet Union even while its military power has grown, but warns that the United States frequently misunderstands Soviet intentions and capabilities.
language: English
title: Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy - Brezhnev to Chernenko
titlecomplete: Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy - Brezhnev to Chernenko
characters: Robert Mugabe, Raul Castro, Vasily Aksyonov, Thomas Mann, Mao Zedong, Margaret Thatcher, Diego Cordovez Zegers, Ronald Reagan, Salvador Allende, James Callaghan, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Kohl, Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, Deng Xiaoping, François Mitterrand, Nicolas Ceausescu, Viktor Afanasyev, Fulgencio Batista, Yuri Andropov, Babrak Karmal, John F. Kennedy, Olof Palme, Lyndon B. Johnson, Heinrich Mann, William Colby, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Alexei Petrov, Charles de Gaulle, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, Adolf Hitler, Dwight D. Eisenhower, David Lloyd George, Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, Augusto Pinochet, Leonid Brezhnev, Mohammed Mossadeq, Robert McNamara, Alexei Kosygin, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Harold Macmillan, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Stephen Kaplan, U Thant
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Touchstone