Russian Civil-Military Relations

From the author of Rumsfeld’s Wars , “an important addition to the bookshelf of any analyst of post-Soviet security affairs” ( Slavic Review ). Dale Herspring analyzes three key periods of change in civil-military relations in the Soviet Union and postcommunist Russia: the Bolshevik construction of the communist Red Army in the 1920s; the era of perestroika, when Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to implement a more benign military doctrine and force posture; and the Yeltsin era, when a new civilian a