The Bear and the Foxes Understanding Soviet Policy in the Warsaw Pact.

Abstract

Eastern Europe has been the infant terrible of international politics in the modern era. Conflict within and about this region has precipitated two devastating world wars and continues to threaten the stability of the international system. In the postwar era, the Soviet Union has exerted its dominance in Eastern Europe in a manner which the Tsars would have surely envied. It is this dominance and the instruments through which it is achieved, that this paper is concerned. Born of the East-West Cold War struggle, the Warsaw Pact has evolved to symbolize the calculated Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe in the political and military spheres. This unwanted partnership, imposed by the Soviets on their reluctant allies, is far from the alliance Soviet spokesmen would claim. It is rather an instrument of a much broader integrationist program design to entrap and keep Eastern Europe in the socialist web. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104128

Entities

People

  • David L. Greene

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Central Europe
  • East Germany
  • Economic Systems
  • Geography
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Political Systems
  • Treaties
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.