UID:
almahu_9949701279902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047401070
,
9789004122734
Series Statement:
History of Warfare ; 14
Content:
This book explores the interaction of the Russian military and society in the early modern and modern period. In contrast to straightforward military histories, the volume is concerned with 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. The book begins with an attempt by the editors to provide a large frame in which to place the various contributions. What follows are three topical sections, including 22 detailed, often archival based monographic articles. The first section concerns The Military and Society in Muscovy; the second section focuses on The Military and Society in Imperial Russia. The third part analyzes Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military.
Note:
List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History / Marshall Poe, Eric Lohr 1 -- Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes (1313-1533) / Donald Ostrowski 19 -- The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion / Richard Hellie 41 -- In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / J. T. Kotilaine 67 -- The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition / Brian Davies 97 -- Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History / Peter B. Brown 119 -- Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization / Carol Stevens 147 -- The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 / John P. LeDonne 175 -- The Russian Army in the Seven Years War / John L. H. Keep 197 -- Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater / Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter 221 -- The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century / Walter Pintner 241 -- Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? / John W. Steinberg 253 -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia / Gregory Vitarbo 273 -- "To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 293 -- Battle for Divine Wisdom. The Rhetoric of Ivan IV's Campaign against Polotsk / Sergei Bogatyrev 325 -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War / Janet Martin 365 -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century / William Reger IV 389 -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 413 -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 / Nicholas B. Breyfogel 441 -- The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin 469 -- The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War / David Goldfrank 491 -- Military Reform, Moral Reform, and the End of the Old Regime / Josh Sanborn 507 -- The Russian Military and the Jews in Galicia, 1914-15 / Alexander V. Prusin 525 -- Index 545.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Military and Society in Russia, 1450-1917. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2002 ISBN 9789004122734
Language:
English
