Soldiers and the Soviet State : : Civil-Military Relations from Brezhnev to Gorbachev / / ed. by Thane Gustafson, Timothy J. Colton.

How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin? This is one of the most controversial questions in the study of the Soviet Union, here addressed by eight top Western specialists on Soviet politics and security policy. While the authors assert that the civil-military rel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1125
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union
  • Two. Political Change and Civil-Military Relations
  • Three. The KGB and Civil-Military Relations
  • Four. Resource Stringency and Civil-Military Resource Allocation
  • Five. The Defense Industry and Civil-Military Relations
  • Six. The Response to Technological Challenge
  • Seven. Social Change and Civil-Military Relations
  • Eight. The Military Abroad: Internal Consequences of External Expansion
  • Nine. Conclusions: Toward a Crisis in Civil-Military Relations?
  • Index