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The Tsar’s Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
David Alan Rich
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Description for The Tsar’s Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
Hardback. This study demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the 19th century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and sometimes dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Num Pages: 570 pages, 5 computer line illustrations, 5 (8 pp.) tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLL; JPQB; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
In this impressive 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.
Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits of the general staff acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state. In time, this new generation of officers projected their characteristic notions onto the state and onto autocracy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
570
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674911116
SKU
V9780674911116
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About David Alan Rich
David Alan Rich is an independent scholar and a researcher at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Reviews for The Tsar’s Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
The Tsar's Colonels is an impressive study that demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's General Staff during the second half of the 19th century re-shaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy...[It] contributes to a number of debates in Russian military and social history ... Read more