Politics and the Russian Army - Civil-Military Relations, 16892000

Klappentext Military coups have plagued many countries around the world, but Russia, despite its tumultuous history, has not experienced a successful military coup in over two centuries. In a series of detailed case studies, Brian Taylor explains the political role of the Russian military. Drawing on a wealth of new material, including archives and interviews, Taylor discusses every case of actual or potential military intervention in Russian politics from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Taylor analyzes in particular detail the army's behavior during the political revolutions that marked the beginning and end of the twentieth century, two periods when the military was, uncharacteristically, heavily involved in domestic politics. He argues that a common thread unites the late-Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russian army: an organizational culture that believes that intervention against the country's political leadership - whether tsar, general secretary, or president - is fundamentally illegitimate.This book is a comprehensive overview of the political role of the Russian military, from the time of Peter the Great to the present, explaining why Russia has not experienced a military coup in over two centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Explaining military intervention; 2. Cultural change in the Imperial Russian Army, 1689-1914; 3. The army and revolution, 1917; 4. From revolution to war, 1917-41; 5. From victory to stagnation, 1945-85; 6. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-91; 7. Yeltsin and the New Russia, 1992-2000; 8. Organizational culture and the future of Russian civil-military relations.

Product details

• Authors: Brian D. Taylor, Brian D. (University of Oklahoma) Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2003
• EAN: 9780521816748
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81674-8
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics and government, Warfare and defence, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Educational: Citizenship and social education, Educational: Citizenship & social education