Commissars, Commanders and Civilian Authority: The Structure of Soviet Military Politics: Structure of Soviet Military Power - Rilegato

Colton, Timothy J.

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ISBN 10: 0674145356 ISBN 13: 9780674145351

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1979

Riassunto

For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union.

Hitherto most western scholars have posited a basic dichotomy of interests between the Soviet army and the Communist party. They view the two institutions as conflictprone, with civilian supremacy depending primarily upon the party's control of officers through its organs within the military establishment. Colton challenges this thesis and argues that the military party organs have come to possess few of the attributes of an effective controlling device, and that the commissars and their heirs have operated as allies rather than adversaries of the military commanders. In explaining the extraordinary stability in army-party relations in terms of overlapping interests rather than controlling mechanisms, Colton offers a major case study and a new model to students of comparative military politics.

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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 365 pages; Minor library marks remain internally. Subject: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Armiia - History. Soviet Union - Armed Forces - Political activity. Series: Harvard University, Russian Research Center, 79.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674145356
• ISBN 13: 9780674145351
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 374
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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