Russia’s Way of Being in the World, from Yesterday to Tomorrow
... changed in character, and would be a sincere peace partner, in permanence. Of course, the West was sincere, but to its own essential character as manifested throughout its history... ... commitments and become openly warlike. The illogic was that basing itself on this assumption, Russia went on to cut back on its own strength and abandon the policies that had led... ... or more correct than the optimists. The next matryoshka doll was the view that the USSR could go it alone with its allies within the socialist camp, even if there was no consensus with China, in the teeth of objections from China and in the face of active antipathy from...