From Stagnation to Reform: Soviet Union 1964-91 (Access to History) (1997) (edit title/settings)

Chapter 1 Introduction: The USSR under Brezhnev and Gorbachev - The Life and Death of a Superpower
1. The rise of a Superstate
2. Cold War Superpower
3. Khrushchev and De-Stalinisation
4. Brezhnev, 1964-82
5 The Andropov-Chernenko Interregnum
6. Gorbachev's USSR
7. Stalinism and Beyond, 1964-91
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Chapter 2 The Years of Stagnation: Brezhnevs USSR, 1964-82
1. The Rise of Brezhnev
2. Consolidating Power
3. 'Developed Socialism'
4. Economic Stagnation
5. Living and Working Conditions
6. The Brezhnev Constitution
7. Dissidence and Social Control
8. Stagnation
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Chapter 3: Foreign Policy under Brezhnev
1. Background
2. Defence and Deterrence
3. Detente
4. A Global Stragegy
5. The Middle East
6. Afghanistan
7. Eastern Europe and the Brezhnev Doctrine
8. China
9. Superpower Status and its Costs
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Chapter 4 The Andropov-Chernenko Interregnum, 1982-5
1. The Succesion to Brezhnev
2. The Rise of Yuri Andropov
3 Discipline and Reform
4. Cold War Tensions: 'We are not a Naive People'
5. The Triumph of the Old Guard: The Rise of Chernenko
6. Chernenko's USSR: 'Look Before You Leap'
7. The Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev
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Chapter 5 Gorbachev: Glasnost and Perestroika, 1985-90
1. The new Leader
2. Political Consolidation
3. Populism and Glasnost
4. Perestroika: Reconstruction and Economic reform
5. Party and Politics
6. Living and Workign Conditions
7. A New Soviet State?
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Chapter 6 'New Thinking': Foreign Policy under Gorbachev
1. The Position in 1985
2. 'New Thinking'
3. Arms Control and Disarmament
4. Eastern Europe
5. Mounting Difficulties
6. The Gulf War
7. A Global Strategy
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Chapter 7 Coup and Counter-Coup: The Death of the Soviet Union
1. The New Presidency
2. The Nationalist Threat
3. Rebellion in the Baltic Republics
4. The Nationalist Threat Elsewhere
5. Russian Nationalism: The Threat Within
6. The Confusion of Political Pluralism
7. A Fragile Democracy
8. Economic Difficulties and Market reforms
9. Secession or Union?
10. An Inconclusve Referendum
11. Prelude to the Coup
12. The August Coup
13. The Aftermath of the Coup
14. The End of the USSR
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Chapter 8 The Post-Gorbachev Era
1. Russia and the World: A New Role?
2. New States and New Problems
3. Democracy or Authoritarianism?
4. The Economy and Society: Hope or Disillusionment?
5. Change and Stability: An Uncertain Future

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