Reforming the Tsar's Army
Subtitle: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (Editor); Bruce W. Menning (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521819886
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Military life & institutions; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History - General History; Russia.; Russia; Military Science; History / Renaissance; Armiëiìa; Armiia; History; Reorganization
First sentence: In January 1874, Tsar Alexander II proclaimed the final of the so-called Great Reforms, the establishment of a system of universal military service.