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Ideology, calculation, and improvisation: spheres of influence and Soviet foreign policy 1939–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

GEOFFREY ROBERTS
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Abstract

This article examines Soviet foreign policy during the Second World War in the light of new evidence from the Russian archives. It highlights the theme of spheres of influence and the relationship between the pursuit of this goal by the USSR and the outbreak of the Cold War. It argues that the Cold War was the result of an attempt by Moscow to harmonise spheres of influence and postwar cooperation with Britain and the United States with the ideological project of a people’s democratic Europe.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 655 - 673
Copyright
© 1999 British International Studies Association

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