Reform of Higher Military Control of the USSR Caused by the Military-Political Rivalry with the United States

Abstract

The article deals with the reorganization of higher military control of the USSR and the influence on it of external military and political factors.The purpose of this article is to determine the group of military-political factors have caused the changes in the military government that took place in 1950 Scientific novelty of the article is that the author of the first attempt to study the problem of relationships between changes in the military government of the Soviet Army and the factors of military-political confrontation USSR and the USA. Based primarily historical documents, the author concludes that the rapid development of the events of late 1949 - early 1950 caused the beginning of a new round of military-political confrontation between the USSR and the United States forced the Soviet leadership to divide a single Ministry of the Armed Forces for two - Military and Naval . At the same time , establish and highest state authority of the Armed Forces of the USSR – the Supreme Military Council , Council of Ministers , headed by Stalin.