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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (Hardcover)
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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (Hardcover)
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In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the
Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty's
prime pillars, finally fell-a collapse that, in light of World War
I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as
inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and
Revolution, 1856-1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our
view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the
enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier's revolt in
1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement-and a
revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as
well as between the ranks. Reese's account begins in the aftermath
of the Crimean War, when the emancipation of the serfs and
consequent introduction of universal military service altered the
composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship
between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War
I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill
treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to
the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers'
refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other
over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on
the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the
officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power. As he
details the evolution of Russian Imperial Army over that period,
Reese explains its concrete workings-from the conscription and
discipline of soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers
to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime
reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects
distortions in both Soviet and Western views of the events of 1917
and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a
critical turning point in Russian history.
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