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Article: The Soviet Study of International Relations.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 1988
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The Soviet Study of International Relations. Allen Lynch. Cambridge University Press, $34.50. Like Honda, Marx and Lenin made it simple: In the competition to sell their goods abroad, the capitalist nations would eventually go to war and destroy each other, and the workers of the world would rise up and unite in a glorious socialist brotherhood.
Bound by the straitjacket of dogma, Soviet analyses of international relations have not usually been taken seriously by western scholars. With the death of Stalin, it became somewhat less dangerous to life and limb for Soviet social scientists to look around and write about how the world had changed since Marx and Lenin. ...