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  • 24 - Moscow’s foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions and interests

  • from Part II - Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends
  • Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Russia
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    02 November 2006, pp 662-705

  • Summary

    This chapter explores Moscow's relations with Eastern Europe, China, Western Europe, the decolonising world and the United States (US) since 1945 from the perspective of Soviet and Russian identity relations with these states. The re-establishment of an orthodox Stalinist identity for the Soviet Union took only eighteen months. From September 1945 to June 1947 uncertainty about Soviet identity was replaced by a strict binary: the New Soviet Man (NSM) and its dangerous deviant other. Stalinism itself was the primary institutional carrier of the NSM. Soviet foreign policy correlates with the evolution of Soviet identity at home. Soviet interests in Eastern Europe did not change from 1945 to 1953: regimes friendly to Moscow. But how Soviets understood what constituted friendly changed dramatically. Finally, the end of the Cold War with the West was associated with the new identity's acknowledgement of fallibility at home and abroad.