A Military History of Russia
Subtitle: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780275985028
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Warfare & Defence; Russia; History, Military; History; History - Military / War; Military; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military - General; History / Military / General
Description: "Integrating military history into the broader themes of Russian history, and drawing comparisons to developments in Europe, Stone traces Russia's fascinating military history, and its long struggle to master Western military technology without Western social and political institutions. Starting with the military dimensions of the emergence of Muscovy and the disastrous reign of Ivan the Terrible, he traces Russia's emergence as a great power under Peter the Great, and her mixed record following her triumph in the Napoleonic wars. The Russian Revolution created a new Soviet Russia, but this book shows how the Soviet Union's harrowing experience in World War II owed much to Imperial Russian precedents."--Jacket.