Soviet Leadership in a sentence

Throughout Amānullāh's reign, Soviet-Afghan relations fluctuated according to Afghanistan's value to the Soviet leadership at a given time; Afghanistan was either viewed as a tool for dealing with Soviet Muslim minorities or for threatening the British.

These policy failures, and the stalemate that ensued after the Soviet intervention, led the Soviet leadership to become highly critical of Karmal's leadership.

The shock produced by that disaster, and the Soviet leadership’s ham-fisted attempts to cover it up, galvanized Ukraine’s pro-independence forces at a time when Mikhail Gorbachev’s were beginning to open up the politics and economy of the Soviet Union.

For a time, the Soviet leadership was unsure how to respond to developments in Hungary, but decided to intervene to prevent Hungary from breaking away from the Soviet bloc.

Lysenko proved himself very useful to the Soviet leadership by reengaging peasants to return to work, helping to secure from them a personal stake in the overall success of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

The Soviet leadership gave its approval for this, as the Soviet Union could not afford to maintain its massive subsidy for the Eastern Bloc in the form of cheap oil and gas exports.

The Soviet leadership were against Shevardnadze's plan, and Chernyaev even believed it was part of Najibullah's plan to keep Soviet troops in the country.

Those who sided with China and Albania in their criticism of the Soviet leadership, often added words like 'Revolutionary' or ' Marxist-Leninist ' to distinguish themselves from the pro-Soviet parties.

The USA, at the time the only country with a nuclear bomb, told the Soviet leadership NO, and today Japan is a united country.

Dissidents relayed to Carter that the boycott was another jab at Soviet leadership.

Someone in the Soviet leadership realized that the general secretary was going off the rails.

After Lenin's death (1924) There was little overt political disagreement within the Soviet leadership throughout most of 1924.

At a Politburo meeting on 24 January, Shevardnadze argued that the Soviet leadership could be indifferent to Najibullah and his government; again, Shevardnadze received support from Kryuchkov.

At the same time, a desire to claim better strategic positions in case of a war with Germany had surfaced within the Soviet leadership.

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership.

The K-19 finally reaches to the diesel submarines, however, the Soviet leadership orders him to confine the crew on the submarine until a freighter can pick them up.

The prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change.

The Soviet leadership denounced Eastman's account and used party discipline to force Trotsky to write an article denying Eastman's version of the events.

Williams (1997), pp 10–11 The Soviet leadership tried to stop, or limit, the changes in the ČSSR through a series of negotiations.