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Article: The Soviet Union and its Southern Neighbours: Iran and Afghanistan, 1917-1933.
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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By Mikhail Volodarsky. London Frank Cass, 1994. Pp.xii + 196. 30 [pounds sterling].
The policy of containment had a curious effect on the geographical perceptions of both those against whom it was directed and those who implemented it. In the case of Soviet decision-makers, containment, particularly its manifestation as a series of defence alliances, heightened an abiding sense of beleaguered encirclement. And although Western politicians were all too conscious of the Soviet presence in Eastern Europe, they began to imagine that the Soviet Union was far removed from, and had no business in, the rest of the world. As a result, when the Soviet Union established ...