Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This viewpoint implies that Afro-Americans, as they achieve greater parity of political and social status with whites, are somehow less capable of responding to the norms and rules of American politics inclusive pluralism than Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks, and other ethnic groups. It is, alas, precisely this attitude toward Blacks that sparked the pathetic pandemonium in Chicago's Democratic party--a pandemonium skewed toward barring Chicago's Blacks from parity of political status with whites, and as such warrants the label "racist". When ethnic-bloc voting seeks to exclude groups from political and social parity it is then...
...history of U.S. Soviet relations since the Revolution in 1917, popular Soviet perceptions of America and dealings with other nations. But the focus of their talks is the deterioration of détente what emerges is more than a little disturbing for the American reader because the Soviet viewpoint is often strikingly logical...
...different from the weapons they replaced (the SS-4 and SS-5) because they do not have the capability of reaching the United States--SS-20 remains a theater weapon usably, only in Europe. The Pershings and Cruise missiles though are clearly superior to their prerectly From the Soviet viewpoint, this is clearcut escalation...
...Viewpoint ultimately suffers from Arbatov's allure to respect the partisan perceptions of the United States Arbatov's constant--albeit diplomatic--denunciations of U.S. policy are so grating that they reduce the effectiveness of the Soveit's arguments. The U.S. it seems, is always in the wrong, the USSR always in the right. As long as the discussion centers around the arms race and international affairs. Arbatov's line of argument is at least plausible. But when the authors turn to comparative human rights and the drawbacks of the Soviet social system, the Soviet balloon pops...
...book's drawbacks are attributable mostly to ideological posturing; in spite of them The Soviet Viewpoint is without question a valuable addition to the literature on U.S. Soviet relations. For detente to be successful. Americans and Russians must come to a better understanding of each other's positions. Even a peek at what Soviet leaders are thinking increases our comprehension of the USSR. And in some small but useful way, the cause of detente is thereby furthered