Abstract
Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s Soviet policy-makers conducted an economic ‘turn to the West’: at first gradual, then strongly accelerating in the late 1960s and early 1970s.1 During the last five years or so they have in certain respects turned away again. Why? And is this turn away from the West essentially a short-term tactical manoeuvre or something more enduring? These are the questions to which this chapter is directed.
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C. H. McMillan, ‘Soviet Investment in the Industrialized Western Economics and in the Developing Economies of the Third World’ in US Congress JEC, op. cit., 1979, pp. 625–48, at pp. 629–30.
Marie Lavigne, ‘L’URSS dans le Comecon face à l’Ouest’ in Centre d’Economie Internationale des Pays Socialistes, Stratégies des pays socialistes dans l’échange internationale (Paris, 1980), pp. 37–68, at pp. 42–43.
P. Gutman, ‘Cooperation industrielle Est-Ouest dans l’automobile et modalités d’ insertion des pays de l’Est dans la division internationale du travail occidentale’, Revue d’études comparatives est-ouest, 11 Nos 2 and 3 (June and September 1980), 99–154 and 57–100.
C. H. McMillan and J. B. Hannigan, The Energy Factor in Soviet-East European Relations, Ottawa: Carleton University Institute of Soviet and East European Studies East—West Commercial Relations Series, Research Report No. 18, 1981. See also Table 8. 5.
V. Selyunin, Podpis’ pod kontraktom’ on 7 June 1979, p. 2, and K. Ikramov ‘Dvoinaya igra’, 6 July 1979, p. 3.
A. Batygin, ‘Kopeika million berezhet’, Pravda, 14 June 1980, p. 3.
Dzh. Gvishiani, ‘Glavnyi put’ povysheniya effektivnosti proizvodstva’ Pravda 27 March 1981, pp. 2–3. Gvishiani is married to a daughter of A. N. Kosygin and is a deputy chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT), with particular responsibility for foreign technological co-operation.
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Hanson, P. (1982). Foreign Economic Relations. In: Brown, A., Kaser, M. (eds) Soviet Policy for the 1980s. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16948-1_3
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