Reforming the Tsar's Army : Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution Paperback / softback
Edited by David (Brock University, Ontario) Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. (University of Kansas) Menning
Part of the Woodrow Wilson Center Press series
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This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare.
Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status.
Yet they inevitably faced the dilemma of importing European military and technological innovations while keeping out political ideas that could challenge the autocracy's monopoly on power.
Reforming the Tsar's Army touches on many broader issues in politics, international relations, economy and society, and combines the efforts of leading specialists of Russian military history from North America, Europe and Russia to consider many aspects of this dilemma.
Grouped around broad themes of resources, intelligence, personality, and responses to specific wars, these essays benefit from the new archival openness to yield some surprising insights into the empire's willingness and ability to adapt to change.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780521174435
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780521174435
