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Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. James Sherr
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Part of the book series: RUSI Defence Studies (RUSIDS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. The Continuing Challenge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. First Principles

      • James Sherr
      Pages 3-21

    3. Foundations of Power: Resources

      • James Sherr
      Pages 22-52

    4. Foundations of Power: Empire

      • James Sherr
      Pages 53-82

    5. Army and Party, War and Politics

      • James Sherr
      Pages 83-107

    6. The Changing Scope of Military Strategy

      • James Sherr
      Pages 108-145

    7. The Invisibles of Power

      • James Sherr
      Pages 146-167

    8. Conclusion

      • James Sherr
      Pages 168-177

  3. Perceptions of Soviet Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Perceptions of Soviet Power and Influence

      • Helmut Sonnenfeldt
      Pages 181-189

    3. Europe and the Security of Russia

      • Edwina Moreton
      Pages 190-197

    4. The Middle East, Afghanistan and the Gulf in the Soviet Perception

      • Fred Halliday
      Pages 198-210

    5. Power in the Kremlin: Politics and the Military

      • Malcolm Mackintosh
      Pages 211-220

    6. Soviet Maritime Power

      • John Fieldhouse
      Pages 221-226

    7. Morale, Motivation and Leadership in the Soviet Armed Forces

      • E. S. Williams
      Pages 227-236

    8. The Soviet Navy in Transition

      • Norman Friedman
      Pages 237-248

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 249-283
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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.

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