Soviet Policy toward the Third World
Résumé
Since Leonid I. Brezhnev's death and, more strikingly, since Mikhail Gorbachev's accession to power, the Soviet leadership has reexamined the political and military stakes in various parts of the Third World and has encouraged a more critical, less ideological approach to the question. The change of tone in Soviet academic articles and in official statements indicates that the political elite is searching for new frameworks of analysis, which may help deal with the difficult, haphazard, and largely unpredictable developments in what they call the liberated countries.