Outfoxing the Eagle: Soviet, East European and Cuban Involvement in Nicaragua in the 1980s

Yordanov, Radoslav

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“…Позже созданы диссертационные исследования, авторы которых (Данута Пацынь [Paszyn, 1996], Карлос Альбертович Перес Селедон [Pérez Zeledón, 2011], Джессика Б. Лопес Флорес, Луис Р. Лопес Гуардадо, Марлин А. Менендес Фирман [López Flores et al, 2019]) в основном объективно осветили проявления советско-никарагуанских отношений периода Сандинистской революции. Обратим внимание на оценки данной темы в работах современных исследователей -Эдварда Линча [Lynch, 2011], Марии Долорес Ферреро Бланко [Ferrero Blanco, 2015], Аугусто Вараса [Varas, 2019], Радослава Йорданова [Yordanov, 2020], созданных на широкой источниковой основе. В то же время прикладные аналитические доклады сохраняют антисоветскую риторику [Pestana, Latell, 2017].…”

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Cooperation Between the USSR and Nicaragua in the Conditions of the Sandinista Revolution

Baranov

2023

Iberoamerikanskie tetradi

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The article defines the preconditions and main directions of cooperation between the USSR and Nicaragua in the conditions of the Sandinista revolution in 1979–1990. The topic of the article is relevant for studies of Soviet foreign policy in Latin America in economic, military, ideological and socio-cultural aspects, and it also allows to identify the prerequisites for the return to cooperation between the Russian Federation and Nicaragua in the post-Soviet period of history. The article applies the paradigm of neorealism in international studies, which makes it possible to determine the resources of influence, interests and institutional framework of the USSR’s foreign policy towards Nicaragua, to compare the declared and real tasks of foreign policy. Comparative-historical and structural-functional methods are used.The course of the Soviet foreign policy towards revolutionary Nicaragua had both geopolitical and ideological motivations. Nicaragua was a promising springboard for the establishment of revolutionary regimes in other countries of Central America. The country also occupied a key position for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal, an alternative to the Panama Canal. In Soviet literature of the 1980s the Sandinista revolution was seen as national-liberation, anti-imperialist, but not socialist. Soviet experts positively assessed the strategic alliance of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) with the supporters of the revolution among the believers. Sandinism was regarded as an effective, albeit controversial, revolutionary ideology. The periodization of the Soviet foreign policy towards Nicaragua during 1979–1990 is substantiated: the establishment of cooperation relations (1979–1981), the highest point in cooperation (1982–1987), the curtailment of cooperation as the national reconciliation policy (1987–early 1990) was unfolding. The main factor in the dynamics of bilateral relations were the strategic interests of the USSR in Central America, which changed dramatically under the influence of perestroika. The defeat of the FSLN in the 1990 elections was largely the result of the Soviet foreign policy deideologization and the collapse of socialism in the Eastern European countries.

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Cooperation Between the USSR and Nicaragua in the Conditions of the Sandinista Revolution

Baranov

2023

Iberoamerikanskie tetradi

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The Nicaraguan Revolution's Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine: Sandinistas and Western Europe, 1979–1990

Ommen¹

2021

The Americas

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This article analyzes the revolutionary diplomacy of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) through the prism of Nicaraguan and Western European relations during the final decade of the Cold War. It contends that —despite the FSLN's ideological affiliation with Third World national liberation movements, Cuba, and the socialist bloc—the campaign to influence Western European foreign policies was central to the Sandinista government's international strategy. By pushing Western European governments to play a prominent role in Central America's violent Cold War conflicts, the Sandinistas sought to undermine US power in the isthmus and alter the inter-American dynamics that shaped their region's history up to the late 1970s. Furthermore, by building financial ties with Western European countries, the FSLN could avoid complete financial dependency on the Soviet bloc and strengthen Nicaragua's image as a nonaligned state. The Sandinistas’ campaign to challenge US hegemony in Central America through a pragmatic outreach to Western Europe was largely successful, but it came at the cost of implementing domestic reforms that ran counter to their own ambitions. Ultimately, this prompted the FSLN to hold elections in 1990, which resulted in their removal from power.

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An exit without strategy: learning from the Soviet Bloc’s retreat from the Horn of Africa and Central America

Yordanov

2021

Third World Quarterly

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Outfoxing the Eagle: Soviet, East European and Cuban Involvement in Nicaragua in the 1980s

Cited by 7 publications

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Cooperation Between the USSR and Nicaragua in the Conditions of the Sandinista Revolution

Cooperation Between the USSR and Nicaragua in the Conditions of the Sandinista Revolution

The Nicaraguan Revolution's Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine: Sandinistas and Western Europe, 1979–1990

An exit without strategy: learning from the Soviet Bloc’s retreat from the Horn of Africa and Central America

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