The Military and Society in Russia, 1450-1917

Eric Lohr received his Ph.D. at Harvard. He is the author of Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Minorities during World War I. He is working on an overview of Russia during World War I for the Cambridge History of Russia and a book on the institution of 'poddanstvo' (subjecthood/citizenship) in late imperial Russia. Marshall Poe Ph.D. at Berkeley, has published extensively on Early Modern European History, including A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography and The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.). He is also co-editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. He currently teaches History at Harvard.

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Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History / Marshall Poe, Eric Lohr 1

Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes (1313-1533) / Donald Ostrowski 19

The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion / Richard Hellie 41

In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / J. T. Kotilaine 67

The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition / Brian Davies 97

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History / Peter B. Brown 119

Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization / Carol Stevens 147

The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 / John P. LeDonne 175

The Russian Army in the Seven Years War / John L. H. Keep 197

Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater / Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter 221

The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century / Walter Pintner 241

Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? / John W. Steinberg 253

Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia / Gregory Vitarbo 273

"To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 293

Battle for Divine Wisdom. The Rhetoric of Ivan IV's Campaign against Polotsk / Sergei Bogatyrev 325

Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War / Janet Martin 365

Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century / William Reger IV 389

'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 413

Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 / Nicholas B. Breyfogel 441

The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin 469

The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War / David Goldfrank 491

Military Reform, Moral Reform, and the End of the Old Regime / Josh Sanborn 507

The Russian Military and the Jews in Galicia, 1914-15 / Alexander V. Prusin 525

Index 545