Author: Nichols, Thomas M.
Title: The Sacred Cause: Civil-Military Conflict Over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,259 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: "Our National and Sacred Cause"; Bureaucrats or Bonapartes? Western Views of the Soviet Military; Setting the Stage: Stalin & the Military; Khrushchev's Revolution: Stalinism without Stalin?; The "Golden Age" & After: Brezhnev's Retreat & Military Ascendance; Reform & Resistance: Gorbachev & the Military, 1985-1986; Abandoning Pretenses: Gorbachev & the Military, 1987-1988; The End of an Era: The Soviet Armed Forces & the "Political Struggle"; Rethinking Soviet Civil-Military Relations: Prospects for the 1990s.

Keywords: Soviet Union, Civil-Military, Relations, National Security, Policy, Communist Russia, Communism, Political History, Politics