The Kremlin & the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin

by Dale R. Herspring

Throughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat. By the end of the Cold War, however, it had become the weakest link in the Soviet Union's power structure. Always subordinate to the Communist Party, the military in 1991 suddenly found itself answering instead to the president of a democratic state. Dale Herspring closely examines how that relationship influenced the military's viability in the new Russian Federation. Herspring's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614672
• ISBN13: 9780700614677
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"