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Working Paper (1994)
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@MISC{Rd94workingpaper,
author = {Military Rd and Military R and Leonid Kosals and Leonid Kosals},
title = {Working Paper},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
this paper is to analyze the socio-economic situation in military R&D institutes in the context of demilitarization in Russia. By 1985, the USSR was a country where the major social institutions were primarily subjected to the Soviet State's military-strategic priorities. The Soviet Union possessed a great army which was superior to its economic possibilities and real national interests. This army was placed under the command of the ruling elite of the CPSU and was manned on the principle of universal military service. From an economic perspective, militarization can be characterized by a considerable share of the expenditure of the State budget, in the huge military-industrial complex (MIC), in the idleness of very great mobilization capacities during peace time and, accordingly, in the under-developed consumer sector. From a political perspective, militarization resulted in the military authorities' considerable influence on domestic and foreign decision-making, in the stationing of great contingents of Soviet armed forces abroad, and in the orientation towards forced suppression of political opponents inside the country and abroad. From an ideological perspective, militarism reflected itself in implanting in the consciousness of the population "the enemy image" (meaning world capitalism and Zionism), in cultivating the necessity of being constantly ready for the coming war, in spreading the Messiah idea of carrying Communist beliefs to other countries even by force, and in the concept of class struggle permitting civil war. From an educational perspective, it was taken for granted that everyone should participate in a course of primary military training and university students should have participated in a military course at special military departments and obtained ...
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considerable share economic perspective political perspective messiah idea orientation towards state budget communist belief soviet union enemy image huge military-industrial complex great contingent universal military service economic possibility military-strategic priority socio-economic situation primary military training peace time special military department ideological perspective great mobilization capacity university student major social institution soviet state foreign decision-making great army military authority class struggle military course real national interest educational perspective civil war under-developed consumer sector world capitalism considerable influence political opponent
