The military and society in Russia [[electronic resource] ] : 1450-1917 / / edited by Eric Lohr and Marshall Poe

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Disciplina: 947
• Soggetto topico: War and civilization - Russia
• Soggetto geografico: Russia History, Military
• Altri autori: LohrEric PoeMarshall
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History -- Marshall Poe and Eric Lohr -- PART I -- The Military and Society in Muscovy -- Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes(1313-1533) -- Donald Ostrowski -- The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion -- Richard Hellie -- In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century -- J. T. Kotilaine -- The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition -- Brian Davies -- Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History -- Peter B. Brown -- Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization -- Carol Stevens -- PART II -- Military and Society in Imperial Russia -- The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 -- John P. LeDonne -- The Russian Army in the Seven Years War -- John L. H. Keep -- Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater -- Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter -- The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century -- Walter Pintner -- Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? -- John W. Steinberg -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia -- Gregory Vitarbo -- "To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 -- David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- PART III -- Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military -- Battle for the Divine Sophia? Ivan IV's Campaigns against Polotsk and Novgorod -- Sergei Bogatyrev -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War -- Janet Martin -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- William Reger IV -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtem -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 -- Nicholas B. Breyfogel -- The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812 -- Alexander M. Martin -- The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War -- David Goldfrank -- Military Reform, Moral Reform, and the End of the Old Regime -- Josh Sanbor -- The Russian Military and the Jews in Galicia, 1914-15 -- Alexander V Prusin.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The military and society in Russia
• ISBN: 1-280-46490-9; 9786610464906; 1-4175-3673-X; 90-474-0107-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783496303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of warfare ; ; v. 14.