Article from ROAPE Volume 18 Number 50
Perestroika, the Soviet Union & the Third World

The process of dramatic and contradictory change in the Soviet Union, ‘Perestroika’ , has been accompanied by unprecedented and vehement debates on a broad range of political ideological and economic issues. These debates have involved not only fundamental domestic issues but to no less extent the interpretation of world developments and relations between the Soviet Union and other countries. Among the many issues that have come under critical scrutiny and revision are previous views and policy outlooks on the Third World.