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Kto Kovo? The Present Danger, as Seen From Moscow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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Kto kovo? according to Lenin, is the fundamental question of politics. "Who's going to do in whom?" Lenin and others plotting against the czar came steadily to this zero-sum conception of politics. One side or the other could win—not both. Though Americans tend to expect a harmony of interests among nations, the zero-sum conception also exists in this country; it is, in fact, a prominent factor in the ongoing debate about Soviet strategic objectives and capabilities—for instance, in statements by the Committee on the Present Danger.
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page 4 note * Details on the size of the Soviet forces from the I920's to 1963 (based in part on data given by Khrushchev in 1960) are given in the author's "Soviet Disarmament Proposals and the Cadre-Territorial Army." Orbis (Winter. 1964).
page 4 note ** The Military Balance, 1976-1977 (London:" International Institute for Strategic Studies. 1976) gives the current size of Soviet forces as 3,650,000 plus 750,000 uniformed civilians. American officials in recent years have suggested a total as high as 4,800,000, based on railroad and other work crews"as well as border troops.
page 6 note* For years. Khrushchev recalls, the Scmyorku was the onlv K'BM in ihe Sov iel arsenal the same missile that first earned a sputnik mm space. Washington was "terrihlv curious ahum our.SV/mxrAn'' ami proposed "space cooperation as a pretext torIitiding out our secret." Bv "showing the Americans out Si'iiiyorkti. we would I lav e been both giv ing aw a\ our strength and revealing our weakness." Onlv when Russia and the U.S. were on an equal looting did Khrushchev think thev would be readv lor cooperation in space.