E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Wirtschafter From Serf to Russian Soldier
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6099-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6099-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, Elise Wirtschafter contributes greatly to our understanding of Russia's complex social structure. Based on extensive research in previously unused Soviet archives, this work covers a wide array of topics relating to daily life in the army, including conscription, promotion and social mobility, family status, training, the regimental economy, military justice, and relations between soldiers and officers. The author emphasizes social relations and norms of behavior in the army, but she also addresses the larger issue of society's relationship to the autocracy, including the persistent tension between the tsarist state's need for military efficiency and its countervailing need to uphold the traditional norms of unlimited paternalistic authority. By examining military life in terms of its impact on soldiers, she analyzes two major concerns of tsarist social policy: how to mobilize society's resources to meet state needs and how to promote modernization (in this case military efficiency) without disturbing social arrangements founded on serfdom.
Originally published in 1990.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi
INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii
ONE. Conscription, pg. 3
Two. Military Society and the State, pg. 26
THREE. From Peasant to Soldier: Education and Training, pg. 55
FOUR. The Limits of Bureaucratic Regulation: The Regimental Economy, pg. 74
FIVE. Justice with Order: Autocratic Values and Military Discipline, pg. 96
Six. Soldiers in Service: Expectations and Realities, pg. 120
CONCLUSION. The Semi-Standing Army, pg. 149
NOTES AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 153
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 199
INDEX, pg. 209
