The partial opening of East-bloc archives has sparked renewed interest in the study of ideological influences in Soviet foreign policy. The task of weighing the relative importance of ideology is complicated, however, by the failure of most scholars to develop sound evaluative criteria. This article discusses the shortcomings of previous analyses of Soviet ideology and puts forth a more theoretically coherent approach, based on three explicit criteria for assessing ideological and security-seeking goals. A Few Unresolved Mysteries about Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: A Modest Agenda for Research

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© 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999
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