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

... Communists, friends of the Soviet Union at the helm of its allied states would guarantee firm foundations for these regimes. The Prague Spring shocked Stalin's successors to the realization that people who believed, and were also friends of the Soviet ... ... Stalin had done to the Soviet Union and its allied states could not be repaired without the kinds of severe bumps and crises that Russia and the other former Soviet republics have been experiencing since the Soviet collapse. The collapse of the Soviet Union ...