Abstract
Relations between elites of the Communist party of the Soviet Union and the USSR Armed Forces have been a subject of significant controversy for Western scholars. Analyses of the BrezhnevKosygin and post-Brezhnev periods have suggested that decision making involving upper echelons of the two groups is characterized more by cooperation than conflict, in contrast with decision making in previous periods. This study uses content analysis to investigate the views of Party and military leaders about five recent military policy issues in order to assess the extent of tension between the two groups. It concludes that the cooperative view, with few exceptions, does more accurately represent current high-level Soviet Party-military relations.
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