The Impact of Soviet Ethnicity and Demographic Changes on Soviet Foreign Policy.

Abstract

This thesis examines Soviet ethnic and national problems resulting from the gradual demographic shifts presently underway. It considers the impact of the shift from a Russian majority in a Russian dominated society, to the Russians becoming only one large minority group among many. The tensions that will increasingly strain the Soviet system as a result of the demographic changes and the complex problems with which the new Kremlin leadership must deal are discussed in relation to Soviet foreign policy. A major problem of the coming decades will be how the leadership attempts to resolve these changes. The nationality probelms of the Soviet Union may not intrinsically be momentous, but are curcial for their potentially exacerbating effects on Soviet foreign policy. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA145346

Entities

People

  • P. W. Wyatt

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • California
  • Central Asia
  • Congress
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Language
  • Law
  • Minority Groups
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Power
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies