Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

The Structure of Soviet Military Politics

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Timothy J Colton

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Russian Research Center Studies

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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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Colton Timothy J.: Timothy J. Colton is the Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, and the Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Harvard University.

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February 5th, 1979

Author

Timothy J Colton

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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Reprint 2014 ed.

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Illustrations; 14 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

373

Series

Russian Research Center Studies

Dimensions

156x234x22

ISBN-13

9780674497429

Product ID

21739770

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