Reforming the Tsar's Army
Reforming the Tsar's Army

Author: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521819886

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This volume examines how Imperial Russia's armed forces sought to adapt to the challenges of modern warfare. From Peter the Great to Nicholas II, 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. Within the context of a constant race to avoid oblivion, the impulse for military renewal emerges as a fundamental and recurring theme in modern Russian history.

The Reforms of Peter the Great
The Reforms of Peter the Great

Author: Evgenii V. Anisimov

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 131745488X

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This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?

The Military Reforms of Nicholas I
The Military Reforms of Nicholas I

Author: F. Kagan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-04-14

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0312299575

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In the 1830s Russia was facing a crisis. The army was poorly organized, the administration was underdeveloped, inefficient, and corrupt, and the state was too poor to bear the strain. This crisis was the principal driving force behind Russia's reforms of the 1830s, and Nicholas' policies can only be understood within the context of that crisis. Within this context, Frederick Kagan's The Military Reforms of Nicholas I , examines Nicholas' fundamental reorganization of the Russian military administration from 1832-1836, bringing about the birth of the modern Russian army.

All the Tsar's Men
All the Tsar's Men

Author: John W. Steinberg

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801895456

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All the Tsar’s Men examines how institutional reforms designed to prepare the Imperial Russian Army for the modern battlefield failed to prevent devastating defeats in both the 1905 Russo-Japanese War and World War I. John W. Steinberg argues that the General Staff officers who devised new educational and doctrinal reforms had the experience, dedication, and leadership skills to defend the empire in the new age of warfare but were continually impeded by institutionalized inefficiency and rigid control from their superiors. These officers, he explains, were operating within a command structure unwilling to grant them the autonomy necessary to effect significant reform, which proved disastrous for the army and—ultimately—the empire.

The Military Reforms of Nicholas I
The Military Reforms of Nicholas I

Author: Frederick W. Kagan

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9780333765180

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In the 1830s Russia was facing a crisis. The army was poorly organized, the administration was underdeveloped, inefficient, and corrupt, and the state was too poor to bear the strain. This crisis was the principal driving force behind Russia's reforms of the 1830s, and Nicholas' policies can only be understood within the context of that crisis. Within this context, Frederick Kagan's text examines Nicholas' fundamental reorganization of the Russian military administration from 1832-1836, bringing about the birth of the modern Russian army.

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881

Author: Ben Eklof

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1994-06-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780253208613

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The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reforms of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them. -- From publisher's description.

Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881
Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881

Author: David Saunders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1317872576

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This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the French Revolution. Why, despite so much effort, did it fail? This is a superb book, both as a portrait of an age and as a piece of sustained historical analysis.

Muscovy's Soldiers
Muscovy's Soldiers

Author: Michael Fredholm von Essen

Publisher: Century of the Soldier

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912390106

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The early modern Russian army emerged from contacts with Mongols, the Caucasus, and Siberia, yet held its own against adversaries such as Sweden, Turkey, and China.

Soldiers on the Steppe
Soldiers on the Steppe

Author: Carol Belkin Stevens

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780875801988

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Soldiers on the Steppe charts the process of Russian army reform, not as reflected in laws and government edicts but rather as it was lived on the southeastern frontier of Europe.

Learning from Foreign Wars
Learning from Foreign Wars

Author: Gudrun Persson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781908916983

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This study examines how the Russian army interpreted, and what lessons it learned from, wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War.