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Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America during the Brezhnev years. Dr Prizel surveys the views of Soviet academics and journalists as well as of politicians on three main areas. He explores the changing Soviet perceptions of Latin America's domestic politics including the Church, the military and national liberation movements; he examines the role of Latin America in global politics and the way in which the USA has influenced regional events, and he discusses the emerging Soviet-Latin American relationship. Case studies of Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Argentina provide a framework for understanding changing Soviet perceptions in the context of the domestic dynamics of specific individual countries. This book is based on a wealth of Russian, Spanish and English language sources. Soviet academic journals, newspapers, communist party journals and the numerous books published by the Institute of Latin America of the Academy of Sciences in the USSR provide the Soviet view of Latin America and this is examined against a background of regional perceptions expressed in Spanish-American material.

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• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Soviet Perceptions of Latin America+s Global Role: Introduction
• 1 Soviet perceptions of US-Latin American relations
• 2 Latin America+s role in the capitalist division of labor
• 3 Latin America+s role in the Third World
• 4 Soviet views on Latin America+s regional integration
• 5 Soviet conclusions regarding Latin America+s ability to conduct an independent foreign policy
• Part II Soviet Perceptions of Latin American Social Structures: Introduction
• 6 The Latin American church
• 7 The Latin American armed forces
• 8 Latin American labor unions
• 9 Bourgeois political parties
• 10 Wars of national liberation or peaceful transformation?
• Part III Soviet-Latin American Relations During the Brezhnev Era: Introduction
• 11 Case study: Mexico
• 12 Case study: Chile
• 13 Case study: Brazil and Argentina
• Part IV Conclusion: The Emerging Soviet Perception of Latin America and the Future of Soviet Policy Toward the Hemisphere
• Conclusions
• Epilogue - Latin America: the Long March
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

A carefully organized and thorough analysis of Soviet perceptions of Latin America during most of the 20th century. Prizel (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) deals with such standard Latin American political subjects as the church, the military, labor unions, and political parties, but he approaches these topics from a unique Soviet perspective. Prizel describes government policies, official statements, and the ruminations of the Soviet academic community, although the connection among these three types of communication is not clear. Soviet perceptions of Latin America seem mostly reactive. They assume a collection of hopeless puppet states and are surprised by the Cuban revolution, the Peruvian leftist military regime of the late sixties, the Allende electoral victory, and finally, by the Sandinista victory. Among the academics there are "optimists" and "pessimists" who offer alternative explanations of events in Latin America. An enlightening epilogue that takes the reader through the Gorbachev era. The book is well documented and has an extensive bibliography. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -A. J. Pinelo, Northern Kentucky University