Russia S Wars Of Emergence 1460 1730

Author : Carol Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317893301

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Russia's Wars of Emergence 1460-1730 by Carol Stevens Pdf

Russia's emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I's radical programme of 'Westernising' reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European concerns. In Russia's Wars of Emergence, Carol Belkin Stevens examines the social and political factors underpinning Muscovite military history, the eventual success of the Russian Empire and the sacrifices made for power.

Author : C. Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0582218926

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Russia's Wars of Emergence 1460-1730 by C. Stevens Pdf

Author : Carol Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798887191416

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Russia's Wars of Emergence by Carol Stevens Pdf

Russia's emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter Is radical programme of Westernising reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European concerns. In Russia's Wars of Emergence, Carol Stevens examines the social and political factors underpinning Muscovite military history, the eventual success of the Russian Empire in the 18th century, and the sacrifices made for power.

Author : Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793634214

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Russia in the Early Modern World by Donald Ostrowski Pdf

This study examines the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period in the midst of constant change. The author analyzes how Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II—along with their hub advisors—managed to sustain a balance between the two in seeking solutions to problems the country faced.

Author : Timothy C. Dowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598849486

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Russia at War [2 volumes] by Timothy C. Dowling Pdf

This easy-to-use reference explores the people and events that shaped Russian military history—and impacted Europe, Asia, and the world—over the past eight centuries. Russian military history is an often-overlooked field. Yet Russia is and has long been an important player in global politics, and its military exploits have been central to its role on the world stage. This study of Russia's military past provides insights into European and U.S. history, including the conduct of the two World Wars and the Cold War, and will help readers better appreciate the current geopolitical situation. This work covers major events and figures in Russian military history from the end of Mongol domination in the 14th century to the present day. More than 650 entries by scores of expert contributors detail events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have influenced Russian warfare over 800 years. Two alphabetically arranged volumes explore such conflicts as the Russo-Polish Wars, the Great Northern War, the Russo-Turkish Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Cross references and further readings in each entry serve as jumping-off points for further exploration.

Author : Eugene Miakinkov
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487518202

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War and Enlightenment in Russia by Eugene Miakinkov Pdf

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority. While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the military exists. Eugene Miakinkov’s research addresses this gap and challenges the assumption that the military was an unadaptable and vertical institution. Using archival sources, military manuals, essays, memoirs, and letters, the author demonstrates how the Russian militaires philosophes operationalized the Enlightenment by turning thought into reality.

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509912186

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The Causes of War by Alexander Gillespie Pdf

This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, the author offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.

Author : John W. Steinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350037199

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The Military History of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great until Nicholas II by John W. Steinberg Pdf

This book examines the rise and the fall of the Russian Empire through the lens of its military history. While much of the literature on this history tends to focus on epochs, The Russian Military and the Creation of Empire uses a variety of archival sources to capture this aspect of modern Russia from Peter the Great right up to the present day. John W. Steinberg analyzes the social dynamic between Russian society and its military over time. Through a focus on civil-military relations, he demonstrates that both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes were built on, and ultimately dependent upon, the support of the military. Case studies of significant battles are also used throughout the volume to reveal insights into the roles, missions, and capabilities of the Russian military since 1689. The Russian Military and the Creation of Empire is a vital study for all students of modern Russia and the history of modern warfare.

Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199280513

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The Russian Empire 1450-1801 by Nancy Shields Kollmann Pdf

Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions.

Author : Brian L. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472514158

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The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 by Brian L. Davies Pdf

The Russo-Turkish War was one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. In this book, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explains why it was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of the Russian Empire, and the rollback of Ottoman power from southeastern Europe. The war completed the incorporation of Ukraine into the Russian Empire, ended the independence of the great Cossack hosts, removed once and for all the military threat from the Crimean Khanate, began the partitions of Poland, and encouraged Catherine II to plan projects to complete the "liberation" of the lower Danubian and Balkan Slavs and Greeks. The war legitimated and secured the power of Catherine II, finally made the Pontic steppe safe for agricultural colonization, and won ports enabling Russia to control the Black Sea and become a leading grain exporter. Traditionally historians (Sorel, for example) have treated this war as the beginning of the "Eastern Question," the question of how the European powers should manage the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A thorough grasp of the Russo-Turkish War is essential to understanding the complexity and volatility of diplomacy in 18th-century Europe. This book will be an invaluable resource for all scholars and students on European military history and the history of Eastern Europe.

Author : Cathal Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199874651

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The Allure of Battle by Cathal Nolan Pdf

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.

Author : William D. Godsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809395

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The Sinews of Habsburg Power by William D. Godsey Pdf

The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. In particular, it looks to the domestic foundations of that power, which were upheld by the growth of a permanent standing army.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230370005

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War in the Eighteenth-Century World by Jeremy Black Pdf

Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides cutting-edge historical insights into a crucial period of world history.

Author : Donald Ostrowski,Marshall T. Poe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317462385

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Portraits of Old Russia by Donald Ostrowski,Marshall T. Poe Pdf

This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.

Author : Mungo Melvin CB OBE
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472822284

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Sevastopol’s Wars by Mungo Melvin CB OBE Pdf

The first book in any language to cover the full history of Russia's historic Crimean naval citadel, from its founding through to the current tensions that threaten the region. Founded by Catherine the Great, the maritime city of Sevastopol has been fought over for centuries. Crucial battles of the Crimean War were fought on the hills surrounding the city, and the memory of this stalwart defence inspired those who fruitlessly battled the Germans during World War II. Twice the city has faced complete obliteration yet twice it has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes. In this groundbreaking volume, award-winning author Mungo Melvin explores how Sevastopol became the crucible of conflict over three major engagements – the Crimean War, the Russian Civil War and World War II – witnessing the death and destruction of countless armies yet creating the indomitable 'spirit of Sevastopol'. By weaving together first-hand interviews, detailed operational reports and battle analysis, Melvin creates a rich tapestry of history.