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The Uncertainty of Soviet Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

S. I. Ploss
S. I. Ploss
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International Studies at Princeton
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Politics cannot tolerate indulgence, it must be logical and consistent.” This was a lesson in Soviet foreign policy which N. S. Khrushchev administered in July 1957, or just after the organizational finale to his bitter struggle with V. M. Molotov, whom the victorious leader accused of favoring “the policy of ‘tightening all the screws’” in relations with the West. However, in the past two and a half years, erraticism has often marked the Kremlin's foreign political behavior. Does this vacillation originate entirely in “objective” pressures on the party First Secretary and premier, or in his own allegedly impulsive nature, or may it sometimes be due in part to a recurrence of factional clashes in the Soviet hierarchy?

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Research note
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World Politics , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , April 1963 , pp. 455 - 464
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1963

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2 The Kremlin and World Politics: Studies in Soviet Policy and Action (New York 1060), 380.

3 Pravda, October 18, 1961.

4 Ibid., November 1, 1961.

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