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Misperception, Ambivalence, and Indecision in Soviet Policy-making: Czechoslovakia 1968: Lessons for today?

... today as it was in 1984 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1903573. There is, however, an important blind spot in the article. I did not fully appreciate the panic of hardliners among the leaders of the Soviet Bloc concerning the Prague Spring. It was clear that the Czechoslovak reform movement posed a severe threat to the Soviet-type orthodoxy of some of the Soviet Bloc regimes. Nevertheless, along with many other observers, I thought it obvious that the reform program launched ...

10.03.2016

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