Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

The Structure of Soviet Military Politics

Timothy J. Colton

    Introduction

    I. The Military Party Organs

    1. The Structure of the Military Party Organs

    2. The Roles of the Military Party Organs

    3. The Military Party Organs in Military Administration

    4. The Monitoring Capability of the Military Party Organs

    II. The Military Party Organs and Military Politics

    5. Routine Administrative Politics

    6. The Great Purge

    7. World War II Decision Making

    8. The Zhukov Affair

    9. Public Demand Articulations

    III. Army-Party Relations Reassessed

    10. The Army in Soviet Politics: Capabilities and Participation

    11. Explaining the Army's Political Quiescence

    12. Civil-Military Relations and Soviet Development

    Appendix A: Biographical Data on Soviet Military Officers

    Appendix B: A Note on Primary Sources

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

Timothy J. Colton is the Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, and the Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Harvard University.