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...Soviet military establishment, Holloway explains, grew out of the need to defend the young Bolshevik government against civil war and foreign intervention. When it became obvious that the Russian Revolution would not be followed by similar uprisings in the West, leaders of the Soviet Union quickly abandoned the Leninist concept of a people's militia in a well-equipped standing army that would ardently defend "socialism in one country." Upon accession to power, Stalin committed the Soviet Union to "catching and overtaking the capitalist countries." Holloway finds the early roots of the arms race. As he goes on to show...
...Soviet Union and the Arms Race, David Holloway tries to map the continuity in Soviet military policy, drawing from it a fuller perception of Soviet designs. Holloway seeks to put the rise of Soviet military power in its historical context; then he extrapolates. The book is not an analysis of Soviet foreign policy--it treats only its military aspect--but nevertheless makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the nuclear debate...
...Holloway argues that over the past 30 years Soviet achievements have drawn level with American ones--even, as with the inter-continental missiles, raising the competition to new levels. Although it costs Moscow more to build weapons of similar quality to those of the NATO forces, since Soviet technology is of a lower caliber, a rough equality will probably remain the rule for the foreseeable future...
...Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride in the van of a driver they had robbed of $20 and stashed in the back. It was decided that the victim, Gable Holloway, 28, should die. He begged for his life. But Rutledge, like a zombie, took the pistol and fired. He fired again and again, five shots...
DIED. Stanley Holloway, 91, ingratiating British actor, singer and comedian who captured the heart of Broadway with his performance as the cockney garbage man, Alfred P. Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, a role he reprised in the movie version; in Sussex, England...