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The Soldier in Russian Politics Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin


Date: 31 July 2022 | Posted by: voska89
The Soldier in Russian Politics Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Robert Barylski, "The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin"
English | ISBN: 1138516953 | 2018 | 510 pages | EPUB | 1140 KB
If Russia is to become a viable democracy, it will need a viable state to make and enforce decisions that nurture societal cohesion and sustain complex economic activity. Armed forces are essential attributes of viable modern states, but what happens when states undergo major structural changes? What was the military's contribution to the end of the Soviet Union and the rise of post-Soviet Russia?


The Soldier in Russian Politics is the first study to go beyond familiar accounts of the main events that brought down the Soviet state and began its reconstruction. It captures the interplay between soldier and civilian politicians in a major political history based on solid political-sociological analysis. Barylski uses the study of civil-military relations to explore new political and intellectual conditions and explain the historic relationship between changes in Western models of Russian reality and political change in the former Soviet Union.
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