| Mailed Fist, Velvet Glove: Soviet Armed Forces as a Political Instrument. Executive Summary. |
30 SEP 1979 |
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| Authors:
Stephen S. Kaplan; David K. Hall; Paul Jabber; Roman Kolkowicz; Colin Legum; BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WASHINGTON D C
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 | This study was conducted in order to determine the historical record of the use of Soviet armed forces as a political instrument since the Second World War; to gain an understanding of the USSR's readiness to use military power in the pursuit of foreign policy objectives and the willingness of the Soviet leaders to accept risks in doing so; to evaluate the utility of political-military operations to Soviet interests and ... |
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| Mailed Fist, Velvet Glove: Soviet Armed Forces as a Political Instrument. |
30 SEP 1979 |
1215 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen S. Kaplan; David K. Hall; Paul Jobber; Roman Kolkowicz; Thomas W. Robinson ; BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WASHINGTON D C
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 | This study was conducted in order to determine the historical record of the use of Soviet armed forces as a political instrument since the Second World War; to gain an understanding of the USSR's readiness to use military power in the pursuit of foreign policy objectives and the willingness of Soviet leaders to accept risks in doing so; to evaluate the utility of political-military operations to Soviet interests and foreign ... |
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| THE SOVIET ARMY AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY: INSTITUTIONS IN CONFLICT. |
AUG 1966 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| SOVIET PARTY-MILITARY RELATIONS: CONTAINED CONFLICT, |
MAY 1966 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| The military's growing self-assertiveness and trend toward institutional autonomy remains a serious concern to the Party leaders and they continue to seek ways of solving its dilemma. Most desirable from their point of view would be, of course, an officer corps that consisted only of dedicated and unquestionably loyal men, each of whom combined the best traits of the commander with those of the commissar. Whenever an attempt has been ... |
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| THE RED 'HAWKS' ON THE RATIONALITY OF NUCLEAR WAR. |
MAR 1966 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| A consideration of the latest phase in the relations between the military and the Communist Party in the USSR. Under Khrushchev and his successors, the rejection of nuclear war as a political weapon has prevailed. A military spokesman, Lt. Col. E. Rybkin, however, has attacked these views as defeatist and politically dangerous. His opinions, in turn, have been indirectly countered in the Polish press by Prof. J. J. Wiatr. This ... |
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| A GENERAL AND THE APPARATCHIKS, |
JAN 1966 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| Party-military relations in the Soviet Union is explored. |
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| SOVIET STRATEGIC DEBATE: AN IMPORTANT RECENT ADDENDUM, |
JUL 1964 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| CONFLICTS IN SOVIET PARTY-MILITARY RELATIONS. 1962-1963, |
AUG 1963 |
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| Authors:
Roman Kolkowicz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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| The purpose of this Memorandum, which has been prepared from open sources, is to describe and analyze a recent phase of the perennial conflict between the Soviet Communist Party leadership and some sectors of the Soviet military establishment. The basic issues of the conflict are: (1) resistance by officers who emphasize the importance of conventional forces to the strategic formulas announced by Khrushchev in January 1960, which discriminate against their ... |
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