Unarmed forces

Matthew Evangelista examines the work of transnational peace movements throughout the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras and into the first years of Boris Yeltsin's leadership. Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives and on interviews with Russian and Western activists and policymakers, he investigates the sources of Soviet policy on nuclear testing, strategic defense, and conventional forces. Evangelista concludes that transnational actors at times played a crucial role in influencing Soviet policy - specifically in encouraging moderate as opposed to hard-line responses - for they supplied both information and ideas to that closed society.

First sentence: In 1995 the Norwegian Nobel Committee, chaired by Francis Sejersted, awarded its Peace Prize to the original transnational antinuclear movementthe Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairsand to its president and founder, Joseph Rotblat.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Editions

1

Pages

416

ISBN

9780801487842

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