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Questions of Evidence and Interpretation in Two Studies of Soviet Decisions in the Berlin Crises - Soviet Risk Taking and Crisis Behavior: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. By Hannes Adomeit. Foreword by Marshall D. Shulman. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982. xi, 375 pp. $47.50. - The Berlin Crisis of 1961: So Viet-American Relations and the Struggle for Power in the Kremlin. June-November 1961. By Robert M. Slusser. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. xvi, 509 pp. $17.50, cloth. $8.50, paper.
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1. Adomeit, p. 319.
2. Ibid., pp. 181, 309.
3. Slusser, p. ix.
4. Adomeit, p. 4.
5. Ibid., p. 12.
6. Ibid., p. 10.
7. Adomeit, p. 131.
8. Ibid., pp. 89-93.
9. Ibid., p. 162.
10. Ibid., pp. 144-52.
11. Ibid., pp. 147-50.
12. Ibid., p. 60.
13. Ibid., p. 38.
14. Slusser, p. 93.
15. Ibid., p. 173.
16. Ibid., p. 168.
17. Ibid., pp. 145-46.
18. Ibid., p. 165.
19. Ibid., p. 169.
20. Ibid., pp. 191-92.
21. Ibid., pp. 166-67.
22. Ibid., p. 152.
23. Ibid., p. 142.
24. Ibid., p. 253.
25. Ibid., pp. 274-75.
26. Adomeit, p. 270.
27. Slusser, p. 181.
28. Adomeit, p. 296.
29. Slusser, p. 379.
30. Ibid., p. 416.
31. Ibid., pp. 340-41.
32. Ibid., p. 356.
33. Ibid., p. 403.
34. Ibid., p. 395.
35. Ibid., p. 397.
36. Ibid., pp. 436-37.
37. S. I. Ploss, “Soviet Succession: Signs of Struggle,” Problems of Communism, 31, no. 5 (September-October 1982): 41-43. Ploss cites Kaganovich's statement that an article by Zinov'ev in Pravda ostensibly criticizing an émigré economist named Ustrialov was in fact directed at Bukharin. A more recent example is found in the Polish official Stefan Olszowski's appeals during the fall and winter of 1980-1981 for an investigation of Eduard Gierek's performance as first secretary, an investigation that Olszowski believed would embarrass his rival Stanislaw Kania.
38. Adomeit, pp. 18, 339.
39. Slusser, p. 132.
40. Adomeit, pp. 9-10.
41. Ibid., p. 295.
42. Ibid., pp. 237-45.
43. Jones, Christopher D., Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe: Political Autonomy and the Warsaw Pact (New York: Praeger, 1981), p. 111 Google Scholar. Jones does argue that the exercises have an intended effect on Western perceptions, but not the one that is implied in Adomeit's argument.
44. Adomeit, pp. 263-64.
45. J. W. Brackett, “Demographic Trends and Population Policy in the Soviet Union,” in Joint Economic Committee, Dimensions of Soviet Economic Power (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962), pp. 555, 558. The tables provided by Brackett give totals for five-year cohorts, which obscure the full extent of the decline in the number of eighteen-year-olds.
46. Adomeit, p. 262.
47. Les Aspin, “Debate over U.S. Strategic Forecasts: A Mixed Record,” Strategic Review, 8, no. 3 (Summer 1980): 32, and sources cited in n. 13.
48. S. M. Shtemenko, “Zakon i dolg,” Kommunist, 18 (December 1967): 62.
49. “V avangarde bor'by za kommunizm,” Krasnaia zvezda, December 19, 1976.
50. Adomeit, p. 269. Quoted from Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovsky Papers (London: Collins, 1965), p. 133.
51. Compare Robert, Jervis, “Systems Theories and Diplomatic History,” in Paul Gordon Lauren, ed., Diplomacy (New York: Free Press, 1979), pp. 239–40Google Scholar; Keohane, Robert and Nye, Joseph, Power and Interdependence (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977), p. 153 Google Scholar; Lowell, Dittmer, “The Strategic Triangle: An Elementary Game-Theoretical Analysis” World Politics, 33, no. 4 (July 1981): 490–91.Google Scholar
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