The Tsar's colonels
Subtitle: professionalism, strategy, and subversion in late Imperial Russia
By: David Alan Rich.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Russia. Armii͡a︡. Glavnyĭ shtab -- History.; Russia. Generalʹnyĭ shtab -- History.; Russia -- History, Military -- 1801-1917.
Description: In this study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.