Original sentence: Depending on country, the word cantonist may refer to:.The official policy was to encourage their conversion to the state religion of Orthodox Christianity and Jewish and Polish boys were coerced to baptism.Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern, Drafted into Modernity: Jews in the Russian Army (1827-1917) (Stanford University Press, to be published in 2007)
Edited sentence: An excellent study by Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern "Drafted into Modernity: Jews in the Russian Army (1827-1917)" will be published in 2007 by Stanford University Press.The official policy was to encourage their conversion to the state religion of Orthodox Christianity and Jewish and Polish boys were coerced to baptism (the unconverted could not be promoted above the rank of lieutenant, though there were some exceptions, in which the unconverted reached the rank of colonel)