From Serf To Russian Soldier

Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400860999

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From Serf to Russian Soldier by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter Pdf

Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, Elise Wirtschafter contributes greatly to our understanding of Russia's complex social structure. Based on extensive research in previously unused Soviet archives, this work covers a wide array of topics relating to daily life in the army, including conscription, promotion and social mobility, family status, training, the regimental economy, military justice, and relations between soldiers and officers. The author emphasizes social relations and norms of behavior in the army, but she also addresses the larger issue of society's relationship to the autocracy, including the persistent tension between the tsarist state's need for military efficiency and its countervailing need to uphold the traditional norms of unlimited paternalistic authority. By examining military life in terms of its impact on soldiers, she analyzes two major concerns of tsarist social policy: how to mobilize society's resources to meet state needs and how to promote modernization (in this case military efficiency) without disturbing social arrangements founded on serfdom. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : W. Barnes Steveni
Publisher : London, Hodder
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Russia
ISBN : UCAL:$B308137

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The Russian Army from Within by W. Barnes Steveni Pdf

A first-hand account of the structure and inner workings of the Russian army in the pre-World War I period. In his capacity as special correspondent to London, the author spent twenty-five years observing Russian military personnel in various parts of the Empire.

Author : Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465589736

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To the Russian Soldier by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760755905

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To the Russian Soldier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815290

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

A definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the collapse of the Soviet Union

Author : F. V. Greene
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0484657380

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Sketches of Army Life in Russia (Classic Reprint) by F. V. Greene Pdf

Excerpt from Sketches of Army Life in Russia In the following pages I have attempted to give a few sketches, which, crude and imperfect as they are, may yet serve to give some idea of the soul which animates the Russian military machine, and tell what manner of man the Russian soldier is, and how he lives and moves and has his being. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Barnes Steveni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:38745528

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The Russian Army from Within by William Barnes Steveni Pdf

Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124095782

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Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter Pdf

Offering a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War, Wirtschafter considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia's development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders and civil servants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Russia
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55335640

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Russia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9637326154

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A Life Under Russian Serfdom by Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii Pdf

"Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs."--Jacket.

Author : Roger R. Reese
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700628605

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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 by Roger R. Reese Pdf

In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement—and a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks. Reese’s account begins in the aftermath of the Crimean War, when the emancipation of the serfs and consequent introduction of universal military service altered the composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers’ refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power. As he details the evolution of Russian Imperial Army over that period, Reese explains its concrete workings—from the conscription and discipline of soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects distortions in both Soviet and Western views of the events of 1917 and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a critical turning point in Russian history.

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141947440

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Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven Pdf

'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.

Author : Aleksandr Nikitenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300130317

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Up from Serfdom by Aleksandr Nikitenko Pdf

“It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder’s power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same.”—Peter Kolchin, from the foreword Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a teenager became fiercely determined to gain his freedom. In this memorable and moving book, here translated into English for the first time, Nikitenko recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude as well as the six-year struggle that at last delivered him into freedom in 1824. Among the very few autobiographies ever written by an ex-serf, Up from Serfdom provides a unique portrait of serfdom in nineteenth-century Russia and a profoundly clear sense of what such bondage meant to the people, the culture, and the nation. Rising to eminence as a professor at St. Petersburg University, former serf Nikitenko set about writing his autobiography in 1851, relying on his own diaries (begun at the age of fourteen and maintained throughout his life), his father’s correspondence and documents, and the stories that his parents and grandparents told as he was growing up. He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf’s existence, illustrated most vividly by his father’s lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko’s description of the tragedy, despair, unpredictability, and astounding luck of his youth is a compelling human story that brings to life as never before the experiences of the serf in Russia in the early 1800s.

Author : Françoise Daucé,Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838256160

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Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military. Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective by Françoise Daucé,Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Pdf

In contemporary armies, violence among soldiers seems to be a universal phenomenon found in both professional and drafted armies. However, the comparison of violent practices in various armies around the world allows us to identify specific features linked to those countries' sociological, political or anthropological contexts. Hazing, for example, seems to be more violent in the armies of transitional societies (Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America), where social tensions encountered by citizens in their daily lives are carried over to, and sometimes intensified in, the military. The comparison of Russian dedovshchina with the situation in other countries makes it possible to identify universal, transitional and national characteristics of military violence.Contents: Konstantin Bannikov on the consequences of the spread throughout society of archaic violence produced by the Russian army; Anna Colin Lebedev on the perception of military violence in Russian society; Anton Oleynik on informal relationships among prisoners and conscripts; Kirill Podrabinek on the reasons of the prevalence of dedovshchina in the post-Soviet context; Igor Obraztsov on the historical roots of dedovshchina; Vadim Mikhailin on the role of language in the military milieu; Julie Elkner on the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers; Bakit Katchekeyev on hazing in the Kyrgyz army; Irakli Sesiashvili on hazing in the Georgian army; Hana Cervinkova on hazing in the Czech army; James Wither on bullying in the British army; Eduardo Paes-Machado & Carlos Linhares de Albuquerque on hazing in the Brazilian police; Joris Van Bladel on dedovshchina and the all-volunteer force.

Author : Boris B. Gorshkov
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053955

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A Life under Russian Serfdom by Boris B. Gorshkov Pdf

This is a translation of one of very few Russian serfs' memoirs. Savva Purlevskii recollects his life in Russian serfdom and life of his grandparents, parents, and fellow villagers. He describes family and communal life and the serfs' daily interaction with landlords and authorities. Purlevskii came from an initially prosperous family that later became impoverished. Early in his childhood, he lost his father. Purlevskii did not have a chance to gain a formal education. He lived under serfdom until 1831 when at the age of 30 he escaped his servitude.Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs.