Sovieteast European Survey, 19861987

Selected Research And Analysis From Radio Free Europe/radio Liberty

Vojtech Mastny

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367288440
• eBook ISBN: 9781000312768
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

First published in 1988. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is well-known for broadcasting news and information to millions of listeners in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In order to be an effective surrogate home service, RFE/RL has built up over the years a large research capacity, where Western-trained specialists describe and analyze develop

Index

Abai, Borubaev, chief guru, Mirza (USSR), 350-351

Adamovich, Ales, Belorussian writer, 196

Adelman, Kenneth, head of US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 144

Afanasev, Iurii, Soviet historian and director of Moscow State Institute of Historical Archives, 62, 64-67, 398(n9), 399(n19)

Afanasev, Viktor, chief editor of Pravda (USSR), 47

Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of: and Vladivostok speech, 8, 157; Soviet criticisms of war in, 68-72; guerrilla attacks on Soviet Union, 72; and drug abuse by Soviet soldiers, 84; and Soviet press, 134; Soviet announcement of troop withdrawals from, 157; and Soviet-Iranian relations, 166-168; and Vienna conference, 178, 181. See also Glasnost; Soviet foreign policy

Aganbegian, Abel, Soviet economist, 382

Aitmatov, Chingiz, Soviet writer, 83-84

Akhmadulina, Bella, Soviet poet, 55, 62

Akhmatova, Anna, Soviet poet, 55, 62, 64

Akhromeev, Sergei, chief of General Staff and first deputy minister of defense (USSR), 137

Albania, People's Socialist Republic of: foreign relations, 14, 295-297; and economic reform, 14, 299-301, 303; conflict between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, 15, 326-333; relations with Greece, 295; Greek minority in Albania, 295; relations with Italy, 295-296; relations with Turkey, 296-297; Albanian minority in Turkey, 296; ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia, 296-297, 303; relations with Yugoslavia, 297; and France, 297; and Austria, 297; and Switzerland, 297; and Sweden, 297; and FRG 297, and East European nations, 297; and PRC, 297, parliamentary elections, 297-299; ideology, 299; press/media, 300, 302, 305; population growth rates, 302-303; life expectancy and mortality rate, 302; food production, 302-304; private

economic activity, 304-305; foreign influences, 305; youth, 305-306; religion, 306; and Balkan nuclear- and chemical weapons-free zone proposal, 322; and Kosovo conflict, 327, 332. See also Alia

Aleksandrov-Agentov, Andrei, former adviser on security issues to general secretary's staff (USSR), 126

Alekseev, Mikhail, Soviet writer, 62

Alia, Ramiz, leader of Albanian communist party: and foreign policy, 295-297; on "party-people" relationship, 298-299, 301; and economic reform, 301; on food production, 302-304; and ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia, 332

Altunin, General Aleksandr, former chief of civil defense (USSR), 136

Ambartsumov, Evgenii, Soviet journalist, 70

Amelko, Admiral Nikolai N., inspector-adviser to Ministry of Defense (USSR), 174

Ananev, Anatolii, chief editor of Oktiabr (USSR), 62

Andropov, Iurii, Soviet general secretary (1982-1984), 4, 28, 110

Aqazadeh, Gholamreza, Iranian petroleum minister, 166

Antonov, Mikhail, Soviet commentator for Radio Moscow, 28

Arbatov, Georgii, head of Institute of the USA and Cana...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor's Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Progress toward Pluralization
• Gorbachev Turns to Political Reform
• Glasnost Gains Momentum
• Social Ills Exposed
• The Lackluster Economy
• New Thinking on Security
• Moscow's Foreign Policy and Public Relations
• Moscow's Foreign Policy and Public Relations
• Czechoslovakia: The Touchstone of Gorbachevism
• East Germany. Hungary, and Reform
• Progress in Poland?
• The Balkan Ways
• Dissension among Dissidents
• In Search of a New Europe
• Whither the USSR?
• Notes
• Index