- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Mark Galeotti
- Published:
- 1997
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Education UK
By 1979, even the most complacent members of the Soviet leadership had begun to awaken to the problems facing their regime. To a large extent this was an internal problem, yet it took events outside the USSR’s borders to bring home the scale of the danger facing them; specifically, events in Afghanistan and Poland. Afghanistan alerted the Kremlin to the threat posed by nationalism, in the non-Russian regions of the USSR in particular, while Poland raised the spectre of mass, working-class protest against hardships and mismanagement.
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- Who wrote "Yuri Andropov and the Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev"?
- Mark Galeotti