On Behalf of the Emperor, on Behalf of the Fatherland

Finnish Officers and Soldiers of the Russian Imperial Life-Guard on the Battlefields of Poland, 1831
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30118-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

Jussi Jalonen’s On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland approaches the Russian suppression of the Polish Uprising in 1830-1831 from a new transnational perspective. The Russian mobilization involved people from the farthest reaches of the Empire, and one notable group was the Finnish Battalion of the Imperial Guard.
For the Finnish elites, the war was a demonstration of loyalty to the Tsar, and the service of young Finnish gentlemen in the Russian Guards produced a sense of militarized patriotism. Relying on a rich variety of original sources, this study places the campaign in Poland in the context of the development of Finnish national awareness, providing a unique portrayal of 19th century war experience and nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jalonen, Jussi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jussi Jalonen, Ph.D. (2014), University of Tampere, is a researcher and a military historian. He has published monographs, popular books, edited works and several articles on Finnish soldiers and volunteers in various foreign wars in the 19th and 20th centuries.