New Book on the History of Soviet-Vietnamese Relations

It is a review of the monograph by prof. I.N. Selivanov, dedicated to the influence of the “Yugoslav” and “Albanian” factors on the formation and development of Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the second half of the 1940s – early 1980s. The events in question played an important role in the history of the international communist and labor movement. The author also touches on such an important problem as the specifics of interstate relations within the “camp of socialism” during the period in which I.V. Stalin, N.S. Khrushchev and L.I. Brezhnev was in power in the Soviet Union. The book consists of three main parts, which reveal various aspects of relations between the USSR and Vietnam with Yugoslavia and Albania. A separate section is devoted to consideration of the processes of making foreign policy decisions in the Soviet Union. Each section of the book is provided with a thematic list of sources and illustrations.