Soviet Foreign Policy since the Death of Stalin [antikvár]

General Editor's Preface The World Studies Series is designed to make a new and important contribution to the study of modern history. Each volume in the Series will provide students in sixth forms, Colleges of Education and Universities with a range of contemporary material drawn from many sources, not only from official and semi-official records, but also from contemporary historical writing from reliable journals. The material is selected and introduced by a scholar who establishes the context of his subject and suggests possible lines of discussion and inquiry that can accompany a study of the documents. Through these volumes the student can learn how to read and assess historical documents. He will see how the contemporary historian works and how historical judgments are formed. He will learn to discriminate among a number of sources and to weigh the evidence. He is confronted with recent instances of what Professor Butterfield has called 'the human predicament' revealed by history; evidence concerning the national, racial and ideological factors which at present hinder or advance man's progress towards some form of world society. In presenting these documents, Mr Hanak has put into the hands of students a key with which they can unlock many of the doors of Soviet foreign policy and so obtain a degree of access to its mainsprings. It is possible to examine the relationship of the USSR to the Capitalist States (Part I), to the Socialist Commonwealth (Part II) and to the Third World (Part III). 'A Soviet communist', writes the author in his conclusion, 'would not differentiate between the aims of communists and the aims of the Soviet Union.' The documentation of recent Russian history, here made available, should enable the scholar to judge for himself whether such non-differentiation is in fact possible. James Henderson