Publisher's Synopsis
"This reimagined collection of journal articles focuses on the nature of Soviet society over its 75-year existence. From ideological dynamics in revolutionary Russia, cultural stagnation in the USSR during the 1980s, Soviet technological dependency on the West, and ineffective Soviet governance to the USSR's institutional collapse in 1991, the impact of Moscow on its client states, the emergence of the Russian Federation under Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin's wars in Ukraine since 2014 to reimpose Moscow's rule, this critical analysis highlights how the geopolitical clout of the United States largely has worked to contain, but at other times, to sustain, the strategic survival of the USSR and Russian Federation since their respective earliest emergence during 1917-1918 and 1990-1991. These critical studies also examine Moscow's geopolitical impact across Southwest Asia, especially how it provoked radical Islamic resistance movements
