Title: Unarmed forces
First published: 1999
Description: Matthew Evangelista examines the work of transnational peace movements throughout the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras and into the first years of Boris Yeltsin's leadership. Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives and on interviews with Russian and Western activists and policymakers, he investigates the sources of Soviet policy on nuclear testing, strategic defense, and conventional forces.

Evangelista concludes that transnational actors at times played a crucial role in influencing Soviet policy - specifically in encouraging moderate as opposed to hard-line responses - for they supplied both information and ideas to that closed society.
Subjects: World politics, Cold War, Empresas Nacionales de Energía, Internationale samenwerking, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Sicherheitspolitik, Verbot, Friedensbewegung, Raketenabwehr, Koude Oorlog, Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava, Kernwaffentest, Ost-West-Konflikt, Rüstungspolitik, Internationale Politik, Interkontinentalrakete, Konventionelle Waffe, Vredesbeweging, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear disarmament, Antinuclear movement, World history, International relations, Russia (federation), foreign relations, united states, United states, foreign relations, russia (federation)
Time periods: 1989-
LC classification: D860 .E93 1999