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Soldiers and the Soviet State : Civil-Military Relations from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Colton, Timothy J.
Otros Autores: Gustafson, Thane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario: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 relationship has been less turbulent than often believed, they also point out that Gorbachev's reforms threaten the system of buffers that have until now shielded the military-industrial world from disruption and change. Introduced by Timothy Colton's essay, ""Perspectives on Civil-Military Re
Descripción Física:1 online resource (381 pages).
ISBN:9781400861422