David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning, eds., Reforming the Tsar’s army
One of the most promising developments in our recent historiography of the Russian Empire has been a growing interest in military history. At first glance, this seems incongruous, because the Russian Empire always was a military state governed by men in uniform and expanding by military conquest to...
| Published in: | Cahiers du monde russe |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de l’EHESS
2009
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/4182 |
| Summary: | One of the most promising developments in our recent historiography of the Russian Empire has been a growing interest in military history. At first glance, this seems incongruous, because the Russian Empire always was a military state governed by men in uniform and expanding by military conquest to incorporate an enormous area from the Oder to the Pacific and from the White Sea to the Black and Caspian Seas. But the “community of scholars” had other priorities, notably in social and cultural . |
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