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It had three names during its existence: People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (1923–1946), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1946–1991) and Ministry of External Relations (1991). It was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union .
There were three distinct phases in Soviet foreign policy between the conclusion of the Russian Civil War and the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939, determined in part by political struggles within the USSR, and in part by dynamic developments in international relations and the effect these had on Soviet security.
17 de may. de 2024 · In the Soviet Union, the rise of dissident culture was initially driven by the insight that the authorities were failing to respect the Soviet constitution and the basic rights enshrined in it. The demand that officials rectify their ways, first formulated in 1965 by the political activist Alexander Esenin-Volpin in response to the ...
The political personality of Soviet power as we know it today is the product of ideology and circumstances: ideology inherited by the present Soviet leaders from the movement in which they had their political origin, and circumstances of the power which they now have exercised for nearly three decades in Russia.
21 de jun. de 2022 · And Putin has learned a great deal from the Soviet collapse, managing to avoid the financial chaos that doomed the Soviet state despite intense sanctions. Russia today features a very different combination of resilience and vulnerability than the one that characterized the late-era Soviet Union.
Introduction: Russian Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective. by Michael Mandelbaum. Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister of the Soviet Union from 1959 to 1987, once asserted that no international...
Russia was ready—needed—to pursue traditional relations with foreign powers in search of capital, trade, and technology for reconstruction. The emergence of what Stalin called “Socialism in one country” therefore obliged the Soviets to invent out of whole cloth a “Communist” foreign policy.
