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02162aam a2200373 i 4500 001 5FBE6A066B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 130422s2014 enk 000 0deng c 010 $a 2013015812 020 $a 0415690730 (hardback) 020 $a 9780415690737 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)842337511 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CHVBK $d UKMGB $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a DK275 B7 C78 2014 100 1 $a Crump, Thomas, $e author. 245 10 $a Brezhnev and the decline of the Soviet Union / $c Thomas Crump. 264 1 $a London ; $b Routledge, $c 2014. 300 $a xvi, 233 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; $v 17 505 0 $a Introduction -- The Ukrainian crucible -- Brezhnev and World War II -- The death of Stalin and rise of Khrushchev -- Brezhnev's domestic politics -- Brezhnev's life at the top -- Confronting the military industrial complex -- Dissidence and human rights -- International politics: peacemaker under pressure -- The Soviet bloc, the Brezhnev doctrine and Ostpolitik -- US presidents and the nuclear arms race -- The mixed blessings brought by Brezhnev's new German friendship: the Helsinki Conference and its aftermath -- Brezhnev's blind spot: Africa and Middle East -- South and Central Asia: challenges that Brezhnev could not ignore -- Brezhnev's confrontation with China -- Brezhnev and the fall of the Soviet state -- Downhill all the way. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-221) and index. 600 10 $a Brezhnev, Leonid Il£ich, $d 1906-1982. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Politics and government $y 1953-1985. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations $y 1953-1975. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations $y 1975-1985. 830 0 $a Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; $v 17. 941 $a 2 952 $l LTAX046 $d 20220805011011.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826085256.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5FBE6A066B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search