The Soviet High Command, 1967-1989 (eBook)

Personalities and Politics

Dale Roy Herspring (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6101-9 (ISBN)

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The recent transformations in the USSR are nowhere more evident than in the Soviet military. Top-level military officers have been relieved of their positions, Gorbachev has warned of lean times for the military, the symbolic role of the armed forces has been downgraded, and the concept of "military sufficiency" points to major modifications in Soviet force structure. Contrary to some who see Gorbachev as a Sir Galahad out to slay the evil military high command, Dale Herspring concludes that the relationship between the highest Soviet political and military leaders is at the moment more symbiotic than conflictual. In this first in-depth study of the evolution of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union from 1967 to the present, he shows how the views of senior military officers have varied over time: currently, even if the members of the high command do not like all Gorbachev's changes, they understand the need for them and are prepared to live with them. As Herspring looks at the personalities and politics of eight top military figures, he reveals that the most important of them, Ogarkov, was the first senior Soviet military officer to understand the value of working with the political leadership. Ogarkov believed that the arms control and dtente processes, if carefully managed, could enhance the national security of the USSR. In Gorbachev, the Soviet military has found the type of individual that Ogarkov was seeking.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 18th Army (Soviet Union) • 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union • 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Alexei Kosygin • Andrei Grechko • Arkady Shevchenko • Battle of Kursk • Belorussian Military District • bolsheviks • Boris Shaposhnikov • Brookings Institution • Central Committee • Chernenko • Defence minister • Economy of the Soviet Union • Eighth Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union) • Eleventh five-year plan (Soviet Union) • Far Eastern Military District • Force structure • Foreign Languages Publishing House • General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union • General Staff Academy (Imperial Russia) • Georgy Zhukov • Group of Soviet Forces in Germany • imperialism • John Erickson (historian) • joint chiefs of staff • Kiev Military District • Konstantin Chernenko • Kremlinology • Kulikov • Leningrad Front • Leningrad Military District • Leonid Brezhnev • Marshal of the Soviet Union • Marxism–Leninism • Matvei Zakharov • Michael MccGwire • Mikhail Gorbachev • Mikhail Suslov • Militarism • Military • military art • military budget • Military Council • military doctrine • Military–industrial complex • Military Operation • Military organization • Military science • Military theory • Moscow Military District • Multi-National Force – Iraq • National Command Authority (Pakistan) • National People's Army • national security • Naval Infantry (Russia) • New Soviet man • Nikita Khrushchev • Nikolai Bulganin • Nikolai Ogarkov • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Operation Barbarossa • Order of Lenin • Pavel Kutakhov (marshal) • Pavel Rotmistrov • Perestroika • Pershing II • politburo • Revolution in military affairs • Richard Pipes • Russian Armed Forces • Russian Republic • Sergei Korolev • Shaposhnikov • Southwestern Front (Soviet Union) • Soviet–Afghan War • Soviet Air Forces • Soviet Armed Forces • soviet army • Soviet Navy • Soviet partisans • Soviet people • Soviet Union • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks • Supreme Soviet • Tenth five-year plan (Soviet Union) • The Soldier and the State • The Wehrmacht (documentary) • Transbaikal Military District • Trud (Russian newspaper) • United States national missile defense • Viktor Kulikov • Vladimir Chernavin • war • Warsaw Pact • World War II • Yuri Andropov • zakharov
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6101-2 / 1400861012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6101-9 / 9781400861019