ABSTRACT
The chapter provides fresh insight into the USSR’s role in the global economy as a country not only importing but also exporting technology. Based on materials from the Archive of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and supplemented by sources from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History, the chapter provides a document-based account of the key strategic decisions forming Soviet policies toward the West and the Third World. The chapter devotes special attention to the policymaking process within various bodies of the council in the 1960s and 1970s, since the organization represented an important instrument of Soviet global economic strategies.
