Book reviews

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Dale Herspring, Soldiers, Commissars, and Chaplins: Civil‐Military Relations Since Cromwell, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Pp.247, biblio., index. $75. ISBN 0–7425–1105–7. ($32.95 textbook binding). Geoffrey Elliott and Harold Shukman, Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War, London: St Ermin's Press 2002. Pp.246, illus., biblio., index. £18.99/527.60 (cloth). ISBN 1–903608–09–0. Stephen J. Blank, Russia's Armed Forces on the Brink of Reform, Carlisle Barracks, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 16 March 1998. Pp.45. Stephen J. Blank, U.S. Military Engagement with Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Carlisle Barracks, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, June 2000. Pp.43 Stephen J. Blank, Threats to Russian Security: The View From Moscow, Carlisle Barracks, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, July 2000. Pp.51. Diane L. Smith, Breaking Away From the Bear, Carlisle Barracks, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 3 August 1998. Pp.77. R. Craig Nation and Michael McFaul, The United States and Russia into the 21st Century, Carlisle Barracks, US army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 1 October 1997. Pp.70. William Allison, American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy 1916–1919 [Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought]. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp.190, notes, biblio., index. $69.95/£58.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–27595–863–9.