Format:
1 online resource (576 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401070
Content:
This work covers the interaction of the Russian military and society in the early modern and modern period. It covers the myriad political, economic and cultural currents that shaped the Russian armed forces from their beginnings in Muscovite times to the end of World War I.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History -- PART I: The Military and Society in Muscovy -- Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes (1313-1533) -- The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion -- In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century -- The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition -- Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History -- Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization -- PART II: Military and Society in Imperial Russia -- The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 -- The Russian Army in the Seven Years War -- Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater -- The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century -- Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia -- To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 -- PART III: Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military -- Battle for the Divine Sophia? Ivan IV's Campaigns against Polotsk and Novgorod -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 -- The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004122734
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004122734
Additional Edition:
Print version The military and society in Russia 1450-1917
Language:
English
URL:
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