From Messianism to Collapse: Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991

This concise supplement to courses in the history of Russia and the USSR serves as a sequel to MacKenzie's text, IMPERIAL DREAMS/HARSH REALITIES: TSARIST RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1815-1917. This volume describes Soviet foreign policy from the Bolshevik seizure of power until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.