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Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution

Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution, edited by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and Bruce W. Menning

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Cambridge University Press, 2004

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978-0-5218-1988-6 hardcover; 978-0-5211-7443-5 paperback
Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution, edited by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and Bruce W. Menning
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$109.99 hardcover; $49.99 paperback
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From Peter the Great to Nicholas II, Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status. This volume examines how Imperial Russia’s armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. The tsars inevitably faced the dilemma of importing European military and technological innovations while censoring political beliefs that could challenge the autocracy’s monopoly on power. Within the context of a constant race to avoid oblivion, the impulse for military renewal emerges from this volume as a fundamental and recurring theme in modern Russian history.

Contributors include Robert F. Baumann, Mark von Hagen, David R. Jones, Jacob W. Kipp, Willis Brooks, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Gudrun Persson, David Alan Rich, Frederick W. Kagan, Dmitrii I. Oleinikov, Bruce W. Menning, John W. Steinberg, Paul Bushkovitch, Bruce W. Menning, Oleg Airapetov, David M. McDonald, and William E. Odom.