CPSU 27th Party Congress and Renewal of the Soviet Foreign Policy

With the advent of Gorbachev to power in 1985, the trend towards de-ideologisation and pragmatism gradually became more important resulting over time in curtailment of the traditional relationship between the Soviet Union and the developing countries including India. In fact, this trend had emerged during the last days of Brezhnev towards the end of the 1970s and early 1980s and could see a new orientation in the Soviet writings, a new look towards the World War was in the offing.. This paper analyses the Soviet foreign policy during Gorbachev era which was governed to a great extent by the course of Perestroika.