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Vulnerability of the Soviet Union and Its European Satellites to Political Warfare 5 Volumes

1952 · 1205300085 — Center for International Studies: MIT 1952. Perfect Paperback. Good. A classified study of the political vulnerabilities of the Soviet Union. This study was rated Secret under Title 18 of the US espionage laws. Walt Whitman Rostow and other cold war analysts such as Adam Ulam McGeorge Bundy Andreas Lowenfeld Barrington Moore Allen Dulles etc. prepared it for the CIA DOD and Psychological Strategy Board. The recommendations are quite fascinating and have important implications for future US cold war policies. The analyzes of the study are quite vivid and strongly argued for example "The regime might also undertake major war in a variety of conditions under which it became convinced that major war was the only realistic alternative to loss of control over Soviet society. In other terms the regime is likely o choose to go down fighting rather than surrender its domestic base without a fight. For example on the knowledge available to us it seems likely that an overt ultimatum to the regime whose acceptance would be judged to involve both loss of essential positions and open capitulation to an external threat would be rejected." Machiavelli is quoted in the analysis. <br> 5 volumes. "Secret" has been inked out on the top and bottom margin of all pages. Bound in CENIS wraps. viii 222 i 275 pp. <br><br> Contents include: Part I. Recommendations secret; Part II. A Origin Present Status and Prospects for Soviet Society B Vulnerability of the Soviet Union and its European Satellites to Political Warfare; Part III. A Cancellation; B Some Problems of Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and its European Satellites; C Some problems of policy in respect to the non-Russian Soviet Peoples; D A statement of U.S. Interests and objectives in Russia and Eastern Europe. Volume II The Dynamics of Soviet Society. Center for International Studies: MIT paperback