The collapse of the Soviet military
Record details
- ISBN: 0300074697
- ISBN: 9780300074697
- ISBN: 0300082711
- ISBN: 0300074697
- ISBN: 0300145519
- ISBN: 9780300145519
- ISBN: 9780585366784
- ISBN: 0585366780
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 523 pages)
remote - Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1998.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Soviet philosophy of war -- Party, state, and military structure -- How the military was manned -- The permanent war economy -- Military strategy -- Deciding to change course -- Defensive doctrine and arms reductions -- Glasnost and the public debate -- Legislating military reform -- The intractable party-military connection -- The intractable military-industrial sector -- The army and maintaining domestic order -- From force reductions to disintegration -- The August crisis -- Illusions of another chance -- The illusion of the CIS armed forces. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Russia & Former Soviet Republics History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Europe Soviet Union HISTORY -- General HISTORY -- Military -- Pictorial Soviet Union -- History, Military |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Military history. |