book chapter
Foreign relations
Russia: a country study • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 429-485
By: Nichol, James P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work covers some of the changes that occurred in Russia’s foreign policy as the successor to the Soviet Union, asserting that, despite Russia’s stated goal of transitioning from Socialism to Western-style democracy, it followed pragmatic and flexible approaches that resembled, and at times reinforced, those of the Soviet Union. Russia’s vast territorial span and long-standing strategic interests in three distinct regions—Europe, the Pacific, and the largely Muslim Middle East and Central Asia—afforded few other options. Much of the text is devoted to explaining the range of Russia’s policies regarding the United States, Western Europe, and former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Also considered are Russia’s complex and sometimes conflicting relations with former soviet republics that had become immediately neighboring sovereign states.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Atomic energy
- External trade
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Administrative agencies
- External relations
- Political movements
- Military organization
- Warfare
- Peacemaking
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- James P. Nichol
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 485a-485g)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97007563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--1991-