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Changing Appreciation of the Soviet Problem*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Marshall D. Shulman
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Harvard University
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Whether we articulate them or not, the assumptions that we make concerning the future development of the Soviet system are fundamental to our thinking about American foreign policy. The objectives toward which we can reasonably direct our efforts, the philosophy of our situation, are in a very large measure a function of the image we have in our minds of the changes we discern or anticipate in the character of the society and the government of the Russian people.

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1958

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2 Ibid., XXIX, No. 3 (April 1951), pp. 351–70.

3 Ibid., p. 370.

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