THE ROMANOVS’ MILITANT CHARITY: THE RED CROSS AND PUBLIC MOBILIZATION FOR WAR IN TSARIST RUSSIA, 1853-1914
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

This dissertation analyzes the creation and evolution of the Russian Society of the Red Cross to understand the possibilities for and limits to the development of civil society in authoritarian political structures. Founded in 1867, the Russian Red Cross’s chartered mission was to provide civilian medical aid for wartime relief. By signing the Geneva Convention of 1864, tsarist Russia embraced a European humanitarian movement geared toward aiding individuals wounded in war and victims of natural