The Soviet Defence Enigma

Author : Carl G. Jacobsen
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0198291183

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The Soviet Defence Enigma by Carl G. Jacobsen Pdf

Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis. Since Soviet defence expenditure figures are incomplete, however, our knowledge in this area is extremely limited. This study reviews the state of current knowledge in this field, and presents a critical review of the nature and limitation of traditional approaches. The contributors analyse newly available sources of economic, scientific, and technical military information, and conclude with an in-depth consideration of the relevance and impact of historical and cultural influences on current Russian-Soviet military strategy. There emerges a fascinating account, which both extends our knowledge and understanding, and sheds light on what is perhaps the single most important 'unknown' in the study of international affairs and defence needs.

Author : David E. Murphy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300130263

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What Stalin Knew by David E. Murphy Pdf

This “riveting account of one of history’s greatest blunders” chronicles Russia’s tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany’s invasion during WWII (William L. O’Neill, The New Leader). On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany’s Operation Barbarossa was launched against Russia. Within days, the invading army had taken hundreds of thousands of Soviet captives while the Luftwaffe bombed a number of Russian cities, including Minsk. Though accurate intelligence about the plan had been available to Stalin before the attack, he chose not to heed the warning. In What Stalin Knew, historian and former chief of the CIA’s Soviet division David E. Murphy illuminates many of the enigmas surrounding the catastrophic invasion, offering keen insights into Stalin’s thinking and the reasons for his fatal error of judgment. A story of successful misinformation campaigns, and a leader more paranoid about threats from within his regime than from an aggressive neighbor, this authoritative history sheds essential new light on the most consequential event in the Eastern Front of World War II. “If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22—comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here—its report might have read a little like [this book]. . . . Murphy brings to his subject both knowledge of Russian history and an insider’s grasp of how intelligence is gathered, analyzed and used—or not.” —Niall Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating and meticulously researched account of mistaken assumptions and errors of judgment . . . Never before has this fateful period been so fully documented.” —Henry A. Kissinger

Author : J. Barber,M. Harrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230378858

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The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev by J. Barber,M. Harrison Pdf

The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialised in military production powerfully influenced the course of the twentieth century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defence.

Author : R. Allison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349217229

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Radical Reform in Soviet Defence Policy by R. Allison Pdf

Author : Noel E. Firth,James H. Noren
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0890968055

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Soviet Defense Spending by Noel E. Firth,James H. Noren Pdf

During the Cold War, when the United States' intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union, one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending. In Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990, Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending, provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made. In the process, the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability. Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSR's actual military spending during the Cold War.

Author : Steven Rosefielde
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811212697

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Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence And Foreign Policy by Steven Rosefielde Pdf

This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia's economy, military prowess and international ambitions. The volume does not settle controversies, but does provide readers with an objective basis for assessing Russia's prospects without the distortions caused by fake news and disinformation wars.

Author : David Betz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134344932

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Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe by David Betz Pdf

This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their obsolete armed forces, and bring them into line with the new economic and strategic realities of the post-Cold War world, with new bureaucratic structures in which civilians play the key policy-making roles, and with strengthened democratic political institutions which have the right to oversee the armed forces.

Author : Vladimir Kontorovich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190868130

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Reluctant Cold Warriors by Vladimir Kontorovich Pdf

Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War. If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy, why did experts fail to tell us when it mattered? Vladimir Kontorovich shows how Western economists came up with strained non-military interpretations of several important aspects of the Soviet economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. Such "civilianization" suggests that the neglect of the military sector was not forced on scholars of the Soviet economy by secrecy; it was their choice. The explanation of this choice in Reluctant Cold Warriors raises many questions about the internal workings of economic Sovietology and its intellectual and political background. Are peripheral academic fields mimicking the agenda of the discipline's mainstream more likely to produce faulty scholarship? Did the search for the essence of socialism distract researchers from the actual Soviet economy? Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book answers these questions in a way that has broad relevance for national security uses of social science today.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135269852

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The Russian Military into the 21st Century by Stephen J. Cimbala Pdf

This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. It covers threats from terrorists, break away republics and threats from outside Russia's borders. The book also includes political and economic problems facing the military.

Author : Ian Anthony
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198291892

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The Future of the Defence Industries in Central and Eastern Europe by Ian Anthony Pdf

This report examines the defence industries in Central and Eastern Europe as they attempt to restructure in the wake of changes brought about by the end of the cold war and downward trends in both military expenditure and arms exports. Issues addressed include the developing military doctrines in Central and Eastern Europe; the trend in military expenditure; the nature of defence industry restructuring; the international dimensions of industrial restructuring; and the role of arms exports.

Author : Julian Cooper,Maureen Perrie,E. A. Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349239399

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Soviet History, 1917–53 by Julian Cooper,Maureen Perrie,E. A. Rees Pdf

This work presents eleven studies in the field of Russian/Soviet economic and social history, which have been specially commissioned as a tribute to Professor R.W. Davies. Each chapter highlights a particular area of controversy, and illuminates the process of policy formation in this critical period of Soviet development. Together they provide an overview of the period 1917-1953.

Author : Carl G. Jacobsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349205745

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Strategic Power by Carl G. Jacobsen Pdf

This book highlights the impact and relevance of "strategic culture". Each section contains essays contrasting United States and Soviet perceptions on specific topics. Each section closes with a synthesizing commentary, to help readers to get a better sense of differences and similarities.

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503635845

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Secret Leviathan by Mark Harrison Pdf

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states.

Author : R.T. Maddock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349098422

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The Political Economy of the Arms Race by R.T. Maddock Pdf

Written by the author of "The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending" and co-author of "The Growth of the British Economy", this book looks at the international dimension, the American and the Soviet defence economy, the NATO alliance, the Warsaw Pact and the international arms trade.

Author : Taik-Young Hamm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134620661

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Arming the Two Koreas by Taik-Young Hamm Pdf

North Korea has traditionally been seen as militarily superior to South Korea in the long feud between the two nations. This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the wake of recent hostility against Japan. Hamm controversially shows that the received idea of Koreas military strength is partly a myth created by South Korea to justify a huge programme of rearmament.