Format:
1 online resource (ix, 543 pages)
ISBN:
9781315121826
,
9781351348850
Series Statement:
Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series 46
Content:
Sources of messianism and pragmatism -- The rise and fall of Nikita S. Khrushchev -- Up the down staircase : the era of Leonid Brezhnev -- "Ardent revolutionaries, loyal friends" : the USSR and the communist movement -- An exotic flower of Arabia -- Through the looking glass, or the decision-making process -- The pain of Afghanistan -- Messianism in decline : the time of Mikhail Gorbachev -- Foreign policy and domestic policy : the USSR, Israel and the Palestinians -- Storms in alien deserts -- Cursed nineties -- To return, but how? -- The children devour their revolutions -- The Syrian tragedy, the birth of the monsters (2011-2015) -- The argument of the aerospace forces (October 2015-December 2016).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138563605
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138563605
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315121826
