The Sacred Cause : : Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917–1992 / / Thomas M. Nichols.
To the officers of the USSR Armed Forces, the defense of the Soviet Union was, in the words of a Soviet general, a "sacred cause." What was the nature of Soviet civil-military relations, and what have the new militaries inherited from the Soviet experience? In this book Thomas M. Nichols e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: "Our National and Sacred Cause"
- 1. Bureaucrats or Bonapartes? Western Views of the Soviet Military
- 2. Setting the Stage: Stalin and the Military
- 3. Khrushchev's Revolution: Stalinism without Stalin?
- 4. The "Golden Age" and After: Brezhnev's Retreat and Military Ascendance
- 5. Reform and Resistance: Gorbachev and the Military, 1983-1986
- 6. Abandoning Pretenses: Gorbachev and the Military, 1987-1988
- 7. The End of an Era: The Soviet Armed Forces and the "Political Struggle"
- 8. Rethinking Soviet Civil-Military Relations: Prospects for the 1990s
- Index