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Political Science General

Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union

by (author) Jamie Glazov

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2003
Category
General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773522763
    Publish Date
    May 2003
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773522756
    Publish Date
    Mar 2002
    List Price
    $110.00

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He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five years later. Glazov shows that the strategy of accommodation, the main difference between Canadian and American Soviet policy, was ultimately vindicated by the eventual ascendancy of a liberal Soviet leader (Gorbachev), which led to increased East-West contact and Soviet liberalization, phenomena that led directly to the West's victory in the Cold War. Glazov's new assessment of Western policies toward Khrushchev's Russia is critical to our understanding of present-day Russia, since Gorbachev's democratization, which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, had its origins in the Khrushchev thaw. Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union provides vital information to help answer the question of how the West should deal with Russia, especially in the context of globalization - one of the most urgent issues facing Canada and the Western world.

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"A significant and original contribution to the history of Canadian foreign policy, multiculturalism, and more broadly, cold war history. No other work of its kind covers this subject in such detail." John English, Department of History, University of Waterloo