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- Book Title
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- EAN
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- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Tsar's Colonels : Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 19th Century
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
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- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 306 Pages
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In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits of the general staff acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state. In time, this new generation of officers projected their characteristic notions onto the state and onto autocracy itself; professional concern for the security of the state eclipsed traditional unquestioning loyalty to the regime. Rich goes on to show how divergence between diplomatic and military aims among those responsible for making strategy cost the state dearly in terms of economic stability and international standing. The author supports his findings with original research in Russian foreign policy and military archives and wide reading in published sources. The Tsar's Colonels contributes to a number of debates in Russian military and social history and offers new insights on the structural roots of the Great War, and on the theoretical problems of modernization and professionalization.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674911113
ISBN-13
9780674911116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1129346
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Tsar's Colonels : Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Number of Pages
306 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
674
LCCN
98-019400
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ub225.R9r53 1998
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David Rich questions a venerable myth in Russian historiography: the centrality of the tensions between an autocratic state and a nascent 'civil society' to understanding the career of autocracy before 1914. In so doing, The Tsar's Colonels deepens and broadens our understanding of the social, intellectual, and political factors that led to the emergence of a professional and technical elite within the Russian military establishment. This book powerfully demonstrates how the forces that led to the rise of the Russian Main Staff also crystallized in the irreconcilable tensions that define the 'crisis of autocracy' in the first two decades of the twentieth century., The Tsar's Colonels is an impressive contribution to military history, diplomatic history, history of the professions and intellectual history, and will be read with great profit by scholars in all these fields. Within the small but very significant constellation of military professionals Rich focuses on, the real hero of the story is Nikolai Obruchev, who is revealed here in marvelously revisionist ways. The story, as Rich tells it, will have importance for debates over professionalization in the late Russian empire and its successor Soviet state, and even for current post-Soviet Russian debates about military doctrine., David Rich's outstanding The Tsar's Colonels is a highly original examination of the rise of the professional general staff in Russia in the period from the end of the Crimean war to the conclusion of the Franco-Russian alliance. Based on extensive archival research, informed by an impressive knowledge of the theoretical literature, and distinguished by its comparative perspective, the book casts light on the uneasy coexistence of 'premodern' and 'modern' elements within the Russian state, as well as the constraints that Russian reality placed on the empire's implementation of positivist agendas for military reform and strategic planning. An important contribution to international, strategic, social, and cultural history, fluidly written and trenchantly argued, The Tsar's Colonels is a superb, sophisticated study by a talented young historian., The Tsar's Colonels is an impressive study that demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's General Staff during the second half of the 19th century re-shaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy...[It] contributes to a number of debates in Russian military and social history and offers new insights on the structural roots of the Great War, and on the theoretical problems of modernization and professionalization. Rich's book provides a fascinating account of how the Imperial Russian Army struggled to modernize in a Darwinian world that dealt harshly with those who failed to adapt to changes in technology and military art.
Table of Content
Preface Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction The Emergence of General Staff Professionalism Expert Knowledge and the Problem of Higher Military Staffs Science and Military Statistics in Nicholas's Army Main Staff Reform between Sevastopol and Sedan Mortal Danger as Strategic Rebirth The Main Staff Plans a War Professionalism's Fruits Experts versus Amateurs Progress and Stalemate Conclusion Supplemental Data Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1998
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Yes
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