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Soviet Policy Toward Under-Developed Areas in the Economic and Social Council1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Alvin Z. Rubinstein
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received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of articles on Soviet policy in the United Nations. At present he is serving as an officer in the US Navy.
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The increasing manifestations of Soviet interest in the United Nations Technical Assistance Program and in the establishment of a Soviet “Point Four” program for the under-developed, non-Communist countries of southeast Asia are of crucial importance to the west. In great measure the ultimate defense of western civilization lies in its ability to guide the surging flow of Asian nationalism into constructive, stable and satisfying channels of economic, social and political reforms. Soviet interest in under-developed areas is not new, but since the death of Stalin, a precipitant and ingenious reversal of tactics has occurred. Nowhere has this interest been more evident than in the Economic and Social Council and in its subsidiary bodies. Though the changed Soviet tactics in no way signify a modification of the long term objectives of Soviet strategy, they do demand a corresponding flexibility and imaginativeness on the part of western diplomacy. By understanding past Soviet behavior, acquiring an accurate knowledge of early postwar Soviet policy toward underdeveloped areas, and investigating the rationale behind that policy, the direction and intensity of present Soviet policy may be better analyzed and viewed in its proper perspective.

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International Organization , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1955 , pp. 232 - 243
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1955

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2 Another important United Nations commission in which Soviet interest has been reflected quite significantly is the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Although not treated in this article, analysis of the Soviet position in ECAFE would certainly represent a valuable contribution to knowledge of this aspect of Soviet foreign poicy. However, the main pattern of Soviet policy toward the under-developed areas studied in the Economic and Social Council and presented in this article holds true in the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East as well.

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23 Document E/2054.

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