Soviet Cold War Perceptions of Turkey and Greece, 1945-58

Abstract

No problem of Cold War history has attracted such serious attention as the decision-making process of the highest state bodies. The more traditional approaches in history are applied to this delicate sphere the more puzzles a student of the subject meets. Even though the USSR party and state apparatus were interlocked and the party nomenclature was predominant over the state bodies, the role and place of particular party organizations in Soviet foreign policy activity have been unjustifiably ignored. Until now, there have been no special studies on the perceptions of the world international system which existed inside the Central Committee of the CPSU. But they had very great significance and served in some ways as the basic preferences of the party apparatus in its analysis of the international situation, geostrategic system, political and ethnic events in the world.