Part 1 The political economy of the arms race - an introduction: contrasting positions; a question of balance of power; the economic factor; methodology; Soviet sources and statistics - a question of interpretation. Part 2 Soviet Russian ideology: the source of Soviet military thought: Russsian military tradition in historical perspective; the political heritage; the political culture heritage; Soviet Russian nationalism; Marx and Engels in Soviet military thought. Part 3 Soviet military thought - theory and practice: the military doctrine; forms of war; the military potential in the Soviet doctrine; military strategy; military operational tactics. Part 4 The economic war - economic power and national security: defence and the Soviet economy in historical perspective; defence and foreign trade; the Soviet military-industrial complex. Part 5 Assessing the Soviet military effort: sources of information; methods of and problems with assessments; the Soviet budget and the allocation of resources. Part 6 The domestic aspect and new economic realism: historical survey; incentives for greater efficiency; statistical surveys in the USSR; problem of savings; reforming the economy; new economic realism. Part 7 Transfer of technology: the American perspective; the Soviet view; the "new" theory of trade relations; benefits and problems; balancing foreign trade; sources of financing imports; efficiency of technological transfer. Part 8 The "defence burden" or the "burden of inefficiency": the interaction between the defence sector and the rest of the economy; dissemination of technology and the question of technological spinoff; a question of efficiency; productivity and economic growth; economic reforms and political control. Part 9 War of ideologies - the propaganda war: America's ideological offensive; ideological propaganda and the New Soviet man; the Soviet response; propaganda and public opinion in the USSR; the Murmansk experience and the case of Czechoslovakia; propaganda and the Soviet armed forces. Part 10: Perestroika and Glasnost. Part 11 Neither war nor peace: American foreign policy - its objectives and strategy; Soviet responses; the fourth alternative.

A study of the political economy of Soviet military power, examining Soviet Russian ideology and tradition, theory and practice of the military doctrine, the domestic aspect and new economic realism, technology and efficiency, and Perestroika and Glasnost from 1985-1987.