TY - BOOK AU - GITZ Bradley R TI - Armed forces and political power in Eastern Europe: the Soviet/Communist control system SN - 0313277230 (hbk.) PY - 1992/// CY - Westport, Conn., USA PB - Greenwood KW - CIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS KW - COMMUNISM KW - EASTERN EUROPE KW - SOVIET UNION N2 - Examines the evolution, nature, and ultimate demise of the system of Soviet control in East European countries. Specifically the book deals with the processes of socialisation and coercion used to bolster the reliability of satellite states armed forces, and tries to explain how these highly pervasive powers failed in a short space of time ER -