Oxford University Press, 1985. — 432 p. Whether or not today's mighty Soviet war machine has pre-revolutionary roots is a matter for debate among historians. But it is well known that the grand princes of Moscow created a harsh but effective system for mobilizing men for military purposes that lasted for nearly 500 years. This volume explores the military aspects of Russian...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 373 p. This comprehensive overview of the political role of the Russian military (from Peter the Great's time in 1689 to the present) reveals why Russia has not experienced a successful military coup in over two centuries. Including materials from archives and interviews, the book covers the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods through...
New York, Cincinnati: H.S. Goodspeed & Co., 1878. — 712 p. A Wars between two countries so extensive and so powerful as Russia and Turkey will never fail to enlist the profound interest of the civilized world, and to fill a conspicuous place in the history of the century. Russia and Turkey are among the largest empires of the earth. In point of extent, Russia is the second, and...
Carlisle: US Army War College, 1996. — 32 p. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Europe witnessed the phenomenon of the absolute monarch in full stride. Legitimized and by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the institution of the all-powerful monarch dictated the course of events that drove nation-states. The Second or Great Northern War, 1700-1721, pitting Sweden against Russia,...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 472 p. Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which had driven Russia out of Galicia and Poland, Germany was free to renew its efforts in the...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 464 p. The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Habsburg Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important to the final outcome of the war. With...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 488 p. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century. Yet much of the actual fighting between these nations has been largely forgotten in the West. Driven by first-hand accounts and detailed...
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1981. — 270 p. So Many Russias Peter I, 'the Great' 1682-1725 The Age of Marshal Munnich 1725-41 Elizabeth Petrovna 1741-1761/2 The Russian Soldier The Russian Officer The Cossacks Catherine II, 'the Great' 1762-96 Paul I 1796-1801
Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2018. — 405 p. — ISBN: 978-951-765-897-3 In August of 1721, Sweden and Russia concluded the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War. In the treaty, a substantial part of the Swedish Empire was ceded to Russia. Sweden lost Ingria, Estonia, Ösel, Livonia and the southeastern parts of Finland. In peace treaties prior to the treaty...
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, 2014. — 119 p. This work explores the Russian military system after the Napoleonic Wars, and the impact the military ideologies developed therein had on...
London School of Economics and Political Science, 1999. — 210 p. When the historian John Keep described the introduction of universal m ilitary service in Russia, hew rote that "Sedan was almost a second Sevastopol for the Russian military establishment'. This was one of the starting points for this thesis. If a foreign war, the Franco-Prussian War to be specific, made such an...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 310 p. This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalins thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of...
London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co. 1908. — XXXIII, 518 p. Recognizable text. « The Caucasus may be likened to a mighty fortress, strong by nature, artificially protected by military works, and defended by a numerous garrison. Only thoughtless men would attempt to escalade such a stronghold. A wise commander would see the necessity of having recourse to...
Pen & Sword, 2010. — 128 p. — (Images of War). What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical reality? And what was the daily experience of the individual soldier caught up in...
Pen & Sword, 2010. — 157 p. — (Images of War). What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical reality? And what was the daily experience of the individual soldier caught up in...
Routledge, 2006. — 287 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, 7). This new book examines the role of the Tsarist General Staff in studying and administering Russia’s Asian borderlands. It considers the nature of the Imperial Russian state, the institutional characteristics of the General Staff, and Russia’s relationship with Asia. During the...
Routledge, 2000. — 221 p. — (Warfare and History). Dr. Reese does an outstanding job in finding the middleground between the political, operational, and anecdotal history of the Soviet military. An immense amount of knowledge is ably condensed into a relatively swift read and his analysis of the early years of the Red Army is especially well done. The only book is only lacking...
Methodical instructions by Dr. Allen F. Chew based on experience of the Russian (Soviet) Army.. This Leavenworth Paper contains three case studies about winter warfare drawn from twentieth century experience. It provides several valuable. perspectives about this well known, but sometimes little understood subject. The final conclusions are related to the specific and little...
London: General Staff, War Office, 1914. — 326 p. — Sixth edition, with corrections published in Russian Army General Orders up to the end of 1913. This is part of the British War Office's effort to keep abreast of the military potential of foreign powers. Contents include the Law of Military Service, recruiting, administration and organization in peace, army organization in...