From Serf to Russian Soldier ：From Serf to Russian Soldier ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：From Serf to Russian Soldier

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Wirtschafter Elise Kimerling;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400860999

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691055855

Subject： K512.3 the history of the Middle Ages (882 ~ 1861)

Keyword： 社会学,中国军事

Language： ENG

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Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, Elise Wirtschafter contributes greatly to our understanding of Russia's complex social structure. Based on extensive research in previously unused Soviet archives, this work covers a wide array of topics relating to daily life in the army, including conscription, promotion and social mobility, family status, training, the regimental economy, military justice, and relations between soldiers and officers. The author emphasizes social relations and norms of behavior in the army, but she also addresses the larger issue of society's relationship to the autocracy, including the persistent tension between the tsarist state's need for military efficiency and its countervailing need to uphold the traditional norms of unlimited paternalistic authority. By examining military life in terms of its impact on soldiers, she analyzes two major concerns of tsarist social policy: how to mobilize society's resources to meet state needs and how to promote modernization (in this case military efficiency) without disturbing social arrangements founded on serfdom.

Originally published in 1990.

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Chapter

Cover

Cover

Contents

Contents

List of Tables

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introduction

1 Conscription

1 Conscription

2 Military Society and the State

2 Military Society and the State

3 From Peasant to Soldier: Education and Training

3 From Peasant to Soldier: Education and Training

4 The Limits of Bureaucratic Regulation: The Regimental Economy

4 The Limits of Bureaucratic Regulation: The Regimental Economy

5 Justice with Order: Autocratic Values and Military Discipline

5 Justice with Order: Autocratic Values and Military Discipline

6 Soldiers in Service: Expectations and Realities

6 Soldiers in Service: Expectations and Realities

Conclusion Thesemi-Standing Army

Conclusion Thesemi-Standing Army

Notes and List of Abbreviations

Notes and List of Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography

Index

Index

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