The Struggle for the Third World

Soviet Debates and American Options

Author: Jerry Hough
ISBN: 0815737459

In the last quarter century the Soviet Union and the United States have repeatedly come into conflict in various parts of the third world. During this period the most backward third world countries have sometimes proved susceptible to radical revolution, but the countries well on the way to industrialization have moved away from left-wing economic and political policies. In the longer perspective the West has been winning the struggle for the third world. The changes in those countries have been the subject of intense published debate in the Soviet UnionÑdebate on Marxist concepts of the stages of history, on theories of economic development and revolutionary strategy, and on foreign policy. Jerry F. Hough explores the breakup of the orthodox Stalinist position on these issues and the evolution of free-swinging discussion about them. He suggests that, paradoxically, many of the old Stalinist ideas retain their strongest hold in the United States, which has not fully recognized its vic

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publish Date: 2010-12-01

Subjects: Political Science / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy, Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries

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