Jews in the Russian army
Subtitle: 1827-1917 :  drafted into modernity
By: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780521515733
Subjects: Russia. -- Armii︠a︡ -- History; Jews -- Russia -- History; Jewish soldiers -- Russia -- History; Jewish children -- Government policy -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Russia -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- History; Russia -- Ethnic relations
Work titles: Evrei v russkoĭ armii.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Empire reforms, the community responds; title: Militarizing the Jew, judaizing the military; title: Let the children come to me: Jewish minors in the Cantonist battalions; title: Universal draft and the singular Jews; title: The Russian army's Jewish question; title: The revolutionary draft; title: Banished from modernity.