Western experts predicted the impending collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s
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Historical sources indicate that during the early 1980s, Western economists and experts anticipated severe economic crises and systemic strain pointing toward the collapse of the Soviet Union.
... war or technological disaster ... experts expected a gloomy time for the war - shattered Continent , only to ... collapse of the Soviet economic system coming ; more economists in the early 1980s were predicting such a crisis for Western ...
Recoge: 1. The Peoples and states of Europe on the eve of 1914 - 2. The coming of the great war - 3. The great war of 1914-1918 - 4. Europe transformed:The aftermath of war in the 1920s - 5. The dissolution of the ancestral order:culture and thought in the postwar era - 6. Depression and dictatorship in the 1930s - 7. The background of the second world war - 8. The second world,1939-1945 - 9. Europe and the cold war,1945-1956 - 10. The post-1945 recovery if western Europe - 11. Soviet communism after Stalin - 12. Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s - 13. The 1980s:dramatic decade - 14. The twentieth century winds down:Europe and the world in the 1990s - 15. Conclusion:In the dying century, a dying civilization?
... predicted that the Soviets would have to come to an understanding with the West because their economy could not support the high defence spending and aggressive momentum of Brezhnev's regime. Lord Carrington visited the Soviet Union in ...
How does one of the world's greatest powers preserve its status and influence when international conditions are unfavourable and its resources do not match its commitments? This was Britain's burden in the 1970s and 1980s when the international order was transformed. Much became unsettled and Britain had to adapt policy to suit new needs and opportunities. Michael J. Turner elucidates the efforts that were made to maximise Britain's role on those matters and in those parts of the world that were of special importance to British strategy, prosperity and security. He examines key decisions and their consequences and places British policy-making in an international context, suggesting that British leaders were more successful in preserving power and prestige on the world stage than has someti
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