Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge

by James Sherr

Overview

Representing the culmination of an RUSI main theme study, "Soviet Power and Prospects", this volume is based on the Institute's proposition that military power exerts a profound influence on the course of world politics and that such power cannot be divorced from its social and political context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349120772
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Series:	RUSI Defence Studies
Edition description:	Second Edition 1991
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The continuing challenge: first principles; foundations of power - resources empire; army and party, war and politics; the changing scope of military strategy; the invisibles of power. Part 2 Perceptions of Soviet power: perceptions of Soviet power and influence, H.Sonnenfeldt; Europe and the security of Russia, E.Moreton; the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Gulf in the Soviet perception, F.Halliday; power in the Kremlin - politics and the military, M.Mackintosh; Soviet maritime power, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fieldhouse; morale, motivation and leadership in the Soviet armed forces, Commadore S.Williams.