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Army of the Sky - Russian Military Aviation before the Great War, 1904-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Army of the Sky - Russian Military Aviation before the Great War, 1904-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies in Modern European History, 68
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Army of the Sky addresses the development of military aviation from
1904 to 1914 in order to explore the relationship of modernization
and Russian Imperial officer culture. Utilizing archival material,
army reports, the military and popular press, published tracts, and
comparative literature, this book explores the response to aviation
within the tsarist military in the realm of hopes and fears,
institutional adaptations, projects drafted to tap the power of the
airplane, the politics of command, policies of recruitment and
training to build a cadre of aviators, and the rituals that paid
homage to this revolutionary new weapon. In contrast to a
historiography which generally portrays aviation as incompatible
with an extremely conservative, even backward, military culture,
this study paints a far more complex and dynamic picture. Numerous
tsarist officers recognized that the airplane presented both a
serious challenge and a real opportunity: it exposed the
limitations of Russia's economic, technological, and
infrastructural development while simultaneously offering a way to
overcome them and a means to assert Russia's development, pride,
and place as a great European power despite heightening fears of
failure. Army of the Sky illustrates further how disparate
responses to this situation influenced tsarist officer culture.
Although the concept of "modernization" remained framed around
familiar binaries, aviation recast and infused with new meaning
juxtapositions of Russia and the West, imitation and contamination,
and the imperatives of progress and the legacies of backwardness.
Aviation helped to remold prevailing paradigms of hierarchy,
authority, deference, and duty. This volume concludes that the
tsarist officer community ultimately offered unique opportunities
to cultivate a culture of military aviation and thereby to master
the challenge of modernization in a uniquely Russian, an Imperial
Russian, manner. This book will be of great interest to historians
of both the military and late Imperial Russia as well as aviation
enthusiasts.
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