The Political Economy of Soviet Military Power [electronic resource

Annotation A study of the political economy of Soviet military power, examining Soviet Russian ideology and tradition, theory and practice of the military doctrine, the domestic aspect and new economic realism, technology and efficiency, and Perestroika and Glasnost from 1985-1987 Front Matter....Pages i-xi The Political Economy of the Arms Race: An Introduction....Pages 1-18 Soviet Russian Ideology: The Source of Soviet Military Thought....Pages 19-37 Soviet Military Thought — Theory and Practice....Pages 38-57 The Economic War: Economic Power and National Security....Pages 58-75 Assessing the Soviet Military Effort....Pages 76-98 The Domestic Aspect and New Economic Realism....Pages 99-124 Transfer of Technology....Pages 125-145 The ‘Defence Burden’ or the ‘Burden of Inefficiency’....Pages 146-169 War of Ideologies — the Propaganda War....Pages 170-199 Perestroika and Glasnost 1985–1987....Pages 200-215 Neither War nor Peace....Pages 216-240 Back Matter....Pages 241-263 The changes that are taking place in the USSR since Gorbachev came to power have renewed the interest of the West in Soviet politics. This book attempts to fill a gap in Western literature on the Soviet Union by adopting a composite view that embraces all facets of the Soviet system and its society: one that offers a better understanding of the complex interrelationship between the operation of the Soviet system and its military power.