Date of Award

Fall 1993

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Patrick Rollins

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47D84

Abstract

The US-Soviet arms race entered a new stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s which created a revolution in military-technological affairs including new weapons systems possessing revolutionary levels of sophistication. The rapid development and acquisition of these weapons systems by the United States created pressure on the Soviet Union to continue the economically debilitating arms race. By 1985, in the midst of this military-technical revolution, Mikhail S. Gorbachev began his reform of Soviet system, including Soviet military doctrine, creating pressure on the Soviet military. These two pressures on the Soviet military are the subject of this thesis. How were these two pressures for change reflected in the Soviet military of the late 1980s and early 1990s? This thesis relies primarily on Soviet military, political and civilian writers for source material. It also includes US government documents and Western journals on the subject of Soviet-American military relations.

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DOI

10.25777/vg2e-k353

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