Varšavská smlouva jako nástroj politiky Sovětského svazu
The Warsaw Treaty as a tool of the Soviet Union’s policy

Summary/Abstract: Bílý, Matěj: Varšavská smlouva 1969–1985: Vrchol a cesta k zániku. Prague: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2016, 432 pp., ISBN 978-80-87912-69-0. The author focuses on an analysis of the internal development of the Warsaw Treaty, its role in operative mechanisms of the Soviet Union’s European sphere of interest, and its influence on international events since the late 1960s until the mid-1980s. In the reviewer’s opinion, he presents a fairly comprehensive picture and brings much useful information in this respect. However, he ignores, save for the barest essentials, military structures of the Warsaw Treaty; moreover, this fact is not obvious from the title of the book "Warsaw Pact 1969–1985: The culmination and the road to downfall". The reviewer appreciates extensive heuristics in both Czech and foreign archives, but he also notes some partial errors in terminology.

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