An Assessment of Military Influence on Soviet Defense Policy and the Party.

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the history and structure of Soviet military-party relationships showing an ever-increasing role of the military in resource allocation and foreign-policy decisionmaking. The implications of this steady growth of the military role, status and influence in the Soviet Union are studied in terms of the possibility of an eventual militarization of the Communist Party and government. If current, patterns of ideological stagnation, bureaucratic immobilism and economic deterioration continue, the party will find itself more progressively dependent on the military underscoring its uneasiness of the status of this relationship. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159271

Entities

People

  • J. E. Murphy

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Civil War
  • Communists
  • Department Of Defense
  • Foreign Languages
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Procurement
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.