The military and society in Russia : 1450-1917

Abstract

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