Armed Forces and Political Power in Eastern Europe: The Soviet/Communist Control System

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This study analyses the inner workings of the political and military control system used by the USSR and former communist regimes in Eastern Europe to rule the region until recent times and how these controls collapsed and were swept away by the "revolutions" in 1989. It describes the end of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and of Soviet power in the region, and discusses how the East European states may "depoliticize" their armed forces and "renationalize" their foreign security policies in the future.

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BRADLEY R. GITZ teaches in the Department of Politics at Lyon College. He specializes in Soviet/East European politics and in national security policy matters.