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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. By David Satter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. x, 314 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $29.95, hard bound.
Das Phänomen Putin: Der sprachliche Hintergrund. By Eberhard Fleischmann. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2010. 361 pp. Notes. Bibliography. €29.00, paper.
Natalia Danilova, Armiia i Obshchestvo : Printsipy Vzaimodeistviia
For many years, scholars in the West have proceeded under the assumption that very little serious work has been done in Russia on civil-military relations. For example, writing in 2006 Olga Filippova commented, “Russian authors mainly stress the problem of civilian control of the military. Civilian control is defined not only in the narrow sense, as a control of the government over the military and this understanding implies an elected head of the military. So civil-military relations are ma..