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From Serf to Russian Soldier (Hardcover)
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From Serf to Russian Soldier (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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.
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