Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures
Subtitle: why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union
By: Ofira Seliktar.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theories of political change and prediction of change : methodological problems; title: Oligarchic petrification or pluralistic transformation : paradigmatic views of the Soviet Union in the 1970s; title: Paradigms and the debate on relations with the Soviet Union : détente, new internationalism, and neoconservatism; title: The Reagan administration and the Soviet interregnum : accelerating the demise of the communist empire; title: Acceleration : tinkering around the edges, 1985-1986; title: Perestroika : systemic change, 1987-1989; title: The unintended consequences of radical transformation : losing control of the revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991; title: Reflections on predictive failures.