The Ethnic Factor in the Soviet Armed Forces

Adygei Alexiev appear areas Armenians army Asia Asians and Caucasians Azerbaidzhanis Baltic Balts Belorussians Border Forces bribe buyer Caucasus Central Asians Chechen chuchmeks churkas cohort combat units command conscripts construction battalions construction troops construction units Crimean Tatar DOSAAF drafted Estonians ethnic balance ethnic conflict ethnic factor ethnic groups evidence example experience extraterritoriality former Soviet servicemen function Georgians individual induction interviews Jews junior Kazakhs kind kolkhozes Komsomol Latvians majority military authorities military schools military service military training minority soldiers Muslim MVD troops nationalities native NCOs non-Russian non-Slavs noncombat units nonmilitary noted number of recruits officer corps percent practices problems racial Rand Corporation ranks reenlist regions respondents recalled respondents who served Russian language sample sergeants services and branches sians Slavic soldiers Slavs Soviet armed forces Soviet Asians Soviet military Soviet population Soviet soldiers speak Russian staffed stationing Strategic Rocket Forces stroibat Tatar tion Ukrainians USSR Uzbeks voenkomat