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This volume, which was first published in 2004, 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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Reforming the Tsar's Army
• Subtitle: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution
• Author: David Schimmelpenninck van der OyeBruce W. Menning
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780521174435
• ISBN: 0521174430
• ID: 02024607
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 562 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. March 2011

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