Condemned to repetition? : the rise, fall, and reprise of Soviet-Russian military interventionism, 1973-1996
"Why did the Soviet Union use less force to preserve the Soviet empire from 1989 to 1991 than it had used in distant and impoverished Angola in 1975? This book fills a key gap in international relations theories by examining how actors' preferences and causal conceptions change as they learn from their experiences."--Jacket
xi, 387 pages ; 24 cm.
9780262024570, 9780262522571, 0262024578, 0262522578
40074017
Introduction
Alternative explanations for the rise, fall, and reprise of Soviet-Russian military interventionism
Learning theory and the Soviet and Russian systems
Soviet military intervention in Angola, 1975
Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, 1979
Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, 1980-84
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1989
From Soviet withdrawal to Russian intervention, 1989-96
Conclusion
Index
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