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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Soviet Union at the End of the Khrushchev Era | |
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| The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev | |
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| The New Leaders | |
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| Soviet Society a Decade After Stalin's Death | |
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| The Soviet Union and the World in 1964 | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Leadership Politics | |
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| High Politics and Brezhnev's Consolidation of Power | |
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| Brezhnev as Politician: Mannequin or Machiavellian? | |
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| 'Two Brezhnevs'? | |
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| The Soviet Elite in the Brezhnev Era | |
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| Policy-marking in the Brezhnev Era | |
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| Brezhnev as Policy-maker: From Consensus to Stagnation? | |
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| The Role of the Politburo and Secretariat | |
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| Taking Advice: Information, Institutions and Expertise | |
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| Policy-making in Practice: The Case of Arms Control | |
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| Foreign Policy from Cuba to Helsinki | |
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| The Defence Build-up of the 1960s | |
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| Managing the Bloc | |
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| War in Vietnam and US-Soviet Relations | |
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| The Road to Superpower Detente | |
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| China | |
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| The Soviet Union and the Developing World | |
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| The Era of High Detente | |
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| From Helsinki to the Second Cold War | |
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| Arms Control and Trade | |
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| Detente Under Strain | |
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| China | |
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| Afghanistan | |
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| Poland | |
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| Conflicting Expectations and the Failure of Detente | |
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| After Detente | |
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| Economic Policy Under Brezhnev and Kosygin | |
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| Soviet Industry Under the Kosygin Reforms and After | |
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| The Limits of Reform | |
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| Soviet Agriculture in the Brezhnev Era | |
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| Blind Spots in Economic Policy and the 'Obsession with Growth' | |
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| Economic Performance | |
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| Growth Performance Under Brezhnev and Kosygin | |
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| The Failure of the Centrally Planned Economy | |
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| Detente, Foreign Trade and the 'Scientific and Technical Revolution' | |
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| Living Standards and Household Welfare | |
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| Socio-economic and Demographic Change | |
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| Urbanisation and Education | |
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| The 'Social Contract' Under Strain | |
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| Emerging Demographic Problems | |
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| Nationalities Policy Under Brezhnev | |
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| Culture and Ideas | |
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| Culture High and Low | |
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| The Crackdown on Dissent | |
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| The Changing Nature of Dissidence | |
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| Growing Room for 'Permitted Heterodoxy' | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Brezhnev's Legacy to Gorbachev | |
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| Brezhnev's Twilight | |
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| The Andropov Interregnum | |
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| The Chernenko Interlude | |
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| State and Society at the End of the Brezhnev Era | |
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| Documents | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Who's Who | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |