AFTER THE ABORTIVE SOVIET COUP AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE - THE POST SOVIET MILITARY

The post Soviet military is part of the general crisis of a society th at is collapsing all at once; party, military, and old ruling bureaucr acy after the failure of the abortive coup to reestablish the old stru cture in part. The military has reluctantly adhered to the Commonwealt h of Independent States as a loose coordinating mechanism. A new Russi an military was created in May, 1992 but it, too is caught up in the s ame process of redefinition: Wither Russia, a mere Russian state or a new, yet-to-be defined reduced Russian empire, with strong nationalist ic overtones, especially toward areas like the Baltic states, Ukraine, Moldova, and other former parts of the old U.S.S.R. with large number s of ethnic Russians. Possible future Russian foreign policy behavior with military overtones is discussed briefly.