Una herejía santificada : idea y realidad del Ejército Rojo

The intention of this paper is to briefly outline the genesis of early 19th century utopian ideas about revolutionary armed forces, the transmutation of these ideas, and the emergence of a post-revolutionary army in the Soviet Union that has little in common with the original "models." The idea is that the initial mistrust of the socialists of the last century towards professional armies was fully justified by events; that the leaders of the Soviet Communist Party remain concerned about the role of the professional military within their state, and that no satisfactory solution has yet been devised that would achieve full integration of the military professionals into the Party-dominated political system.La intención de este trabajo es delinear brevemente la génesis de las tempranas ideas utópicas del siglo XIX sobre fuerzas armadas revolucionarias, la transmutación de estas ideas y el surgimiento de un ejército postrrevolucionario en la Unión Soviética que poco en común tiene con los "modelos" originales. Se desarrolla la idea de que la desconfianza inicial de los socialistas del siglo pasado hacia los ejércitos profesionales se justificó plenamente por los acontecimientos; que los líderes del Partido Comunista Soviético continúan preocupados por el papel de los militares profesionales dentro de su estado, y que ninguna solución satisfactoria ha sido aún ideada que consiga una integración total de los profesionales militares en el sistema político dominado por el Partido

No.298, Roman Kolkowicz, interview by Newell G. Bringhurst

Transcript (40 pages) of interview by Newell G. Bringhurst with Roman Kolkowicz, political science professor at UCLA, on December 12, 1988. This interview is no. 298 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. U-942Kolkowicz, a professor of political science at UCLA, recalls his relationship with Fawn and Bernard Brodie. He gives his impressions of their personalities, talks about their children, and discusses some of the people he met at dinner parties hosted by the Brodies. He also talks about Bernard's career, Daniel Ellsberg, and Henry Kissinger. Interviewer: Newell Bringhurs