Latin America through Soviet Eyes
The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964–1982

This is essential reading for students and specialists of Soviet foreign policy and international politics with special reference to Latin America.

Ilya Prizel (Author)

9780521373036, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 April 1990

268 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.52 kg

Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America during the Brezhnev years. Dr Prizel surveys the views of Soviet academics and journalists as well as of politicians on three main areas. He explores the changing Soviet perceptions of Latin America's domestic politics including the Church, the military and national liberation movements; he examines the role of Latin America in global politics and the way in which the USA has influenced regional events, and he discusses the emerging Soviet-Latin American relationship. Case studies of Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Argentina provide a framework for understanding changing Soviet perceptions in the context of the domestic dynamics of specific individual countries. This book is based on a wealth of Russian, Spanish and English language sources. Soviet academic journals, newspapers, communist party journals and the numerous books published by the Institute of Latin America of the Academy of Sciences in the USSR provide the Soviet view of Latin America and this is examined against a background of regional perceptions expressed in Spanish-American material.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Soviet Perceptions of Latin America's Global Role: Introduction
1. Soviet perceptions of US-Latin American relations
2. Latin America's role in the capitalist division of labor
3. Latin America's role in the Third World
4. Soviet views on Latin America's regional integration
5. Soviet conclusions regarding Latin America's ability to conduct an independent foreign policy
Part II. Soviet Perceptions of Latin American Social Structures: Introduction
6. The Latin American church
7. The Latin American armed forces
8. Latin American labor unions
9. Bourgeois political parties
10. Wars of national liberation or peaceful transformation?
Part III. Soviet-Latin American Relations During the Brezhnev Era: Introduction
11. Case study: Mexico
12. Case study: Chile
13. Case study: Brazil and Argentina
Part IV. Conclusion: The Emerging Soviet Perception of Latin America and the Future of Soviet Policy Toward the Hemisphere
Conclusions
Epilogue - Latin America: the Long March
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]