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From Serf to Russian Soldier

Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860997
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book From Serf to Russian Soldier written by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

To the Russian Soldier

Author : Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465589732
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book To the Russian Soldier written by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Moment of History A Russian Soldier in World War I

Author : Nahum Sabsay
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839742852
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book A Moment of History A Russian Soldier in World War I written by Nahum Sabsay and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Moment of History, first published in 1960, is Nahum Sabsay's dramatic account of his years as a front-line Russian soldier fighting the Germans and Austrians. Especially memorable is his description of the an informal truce where the Russian and Austrian troops, separated by a No-man's land, sang and danced together, followed the next day by intense artillery barrages on each side. The book also depicts the fall of Czarist Russia and the fight against the Communist Red Army. Choosing to flee this chaos, author Sabsay would travel eastward across Siberia, arriving in the U.S. In 1918, he would go on to study mining engineering at Harvard and moved to California where he worked as a tool and die maker while perfecting his English and writing. Sabsay died in 1965.

To the Russian Soldier

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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The Russian Army from Within (1914)

Author : William Barnes Steveni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104504502
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Army from Within (1914) written by William Barnes Steveni and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861

Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 written by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War, Wirtschafter considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia's development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders and civil servants.

Teach Yourself to Be a Madman

Author : Valentin Papadin
Publisher : Burning Bush Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781883014223
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Teach Yourself to Be a Madman written by Valentin Papadin and published by Burning Bush Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Russian Army From Within

Author : William Barnes Steveni
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376552744
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Army From Within written by William Barnes Steveni and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917

Author : Maureen Perrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521815291
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 written by Maureen Perrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the collapse of the Soviet Union

A Life Under Russian Serfdom

Author : Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326158
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis A Life Under Russian Serfdom by : Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii

Download or read book A Life Under Russian Serfdom written by Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs."--Jacket.

Unfree Labor

Author : Peter KOLCHIN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039718
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Unfree Labor written by Peter KOLCHIN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery.

The Fighting Qualities of the Russian Soldier

Author : Lothar Rendulic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Fighting Qualities of the Russian Soldier written by Lothar Rendulic and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Russia Against Napoleon

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141947446
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Russia Against Napoleon written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.

Up from Serfdom

Author : Aleksandr Nikitenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130317
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Up from Serfdom written by Aleksandr Nikitenko and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder’s power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same.”—Peter Kolchin, from the foreword Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a teenager became fiercely determined to gain his freedom. In this memorable and moving book, here translated into English for the first time, Nikitenko recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude as well as the six-year struggle that at last delivered him into freedom in 1824. Among the very few autobiographies ever written by an ex-serf, Up from Serfdom provides a unique portrait of serfdom in nineteenth-century Russia and a profoundly clear sense of what such bondage meant to the people, the culture, and the nation. Rising to eminence as a professor at St. Petersburg University, former serf Nikitenko set about writing his autobiography in 1851, relying on his own diaries (begun at the age of fourteen and maintained throughout his life), his father’s correspondence and documents, and the stories that his parents and grandparents told as he was growing up. He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf’s existence, illustrated most vividly by his father’s lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko’s description of the tragedy, despair, unpredictability, and astounding luck of his youth is a compelling human story that brings to life as never before the experiences of the serf in Russia in the early 1800s.

Memoirs of a Grandmother

Author : Pauline Wengeroff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775044
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Grandmother written by Pauline Wengeroff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.

Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia

Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128185
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia written by Richard Stites and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town and country in genre scenes of everyday life. Serf actors on loan from their masters brought naturalistic acting from provincial theaters to the imperial stages. Stites’s richly detailed book offers new perspectives on the origins of Russia’s nineteenth-century artistic prowess.

From Victory to Peace

Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756494
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book From Victory to Peace written by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Victory to Peace, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter brings the Russian perspective to a critical moment in European political history. This history of Russian diplomatic thought in the years after the Congress of Vienna concerns a time when Russia and Emperor Alexander I were fully integrated into European society and politics. Wirtschafter looks at how Russia's statesmen who served Alexander I across Europe, in South America, and in Constantinople represented the Russian monarch's foreign policy and sought to act in concert with the allies. Based on archival and published sources—diplomatic communications, conference protocols, personal letters, treaty agreements, and the periodical press—this book illustrates how Russia's policymakers and diplomats responded to events on the ground as the process of implementing peace unfolded. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.