Politics and the Russian Army by Brian D Taylor

Politics and the Russian Army by Brian D Taylor

Military coups have plagued many countries around the world, but Russia, despite its tumultuous history, has not experienced a successful military coup in over two centuries. In a series of detailed case studies, Brian Taylor explains the political role of the Russian military. Drawing on a wealth of new material, including archives and interviews, Taylor discusses every case of actual or potential military intervention in Russian politics from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Taylor analyzes in particular detail the army's behavior during the political revolutions that marked the beginning and end of the twentieth century, two periods when the military was, uncharacteristically, heavily involved in domestic politics. He argues that a common thread unites the late-Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russian army: an organizational culture that believes that intervention against the country's political leadership - whether tsar, general secretary, or president - is fundamentally illegitimate.

'… a well-structured and clearly argued study' Peace Research
'Russia's turbulent political history is rich in authoritarian excesses and militaristic triumphs surprisingly poor in examples of direct military interference in politics … the book examines this mystery thoroughly and systematically, relying on a wealth of sources … and an impressive amount of archive work and interviews … it is hard to find any serious fault in this well-structured and clearly argued study.' Journal of Peace Research
'… this is a book ideally kept within easy reach, for its narratives are good, its perspectives engaging, and its judgments well-informed.' Slavonic and East European Review

Taylor, Brian D.: - Brian D. Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and holds a Master's of Science from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Iowa. He is a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Russia and was a Carnegie Scholar from 2002 to 2003. He was also a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000, and his work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, the International Studies Review, Survival, Millennium and the Journal of Cold War Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780521016940
ISBN 10	0521016940
Title	Politics and the Russian Army
Author	Brian D Taylor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2003-06-09
Number of pages	374
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