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1 online resource (346 pages) |
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Modern Wars In Perspective |
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Modern wars in perspective.
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Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; PART I 1450-1598; 1 The constituents of Muscovite power, c.1450; Prelude; A new political consensus; Moscow's military forces; 2 Creating a Muscovite army, 1462-1533; Overview; Consolidation; Military developments; Wars of expansion; Conclusions; 3 The army that won an empire; Overview; Kazan; Military reform; The lineaments of empire; The Livonian challenge; Tsar Fedor; A military crisis?; Conclusion: The sixteenth century -- successes and limitations; PART II 1598-1697 |
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4 The political prelude to military reformOverview; The troubles begin; Cossacks at the margins; Civil war; Foreign armies; The Restoration; The Smolensk War; Muscovy's great wall; The political price; 5 The Thirteen Years' War, 1654-67; Overview; Ukrainian prelude; Preparation for war; Success turns bitter; The foundations of a new army; After Andrusovo; Other frontiers; Rebellion; Conclusions; 6 The steppe frontier after Razin, 1672-97; Overview; The Russo-Turkish War; Settlement and migration as a wartime strategy; Reform?; Military backlash; PART III 1698-1730 |
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7 Peter the Great and the beginning of the Great Northern WarOverview; Beginnings; The opening salvos; Reforming the army of the Baltic; The southern borderlands; Confrontation; 8 Military institutionalization after Poltava; Overview; Institutionalizing change; The Ottoman catastrophe; Reintegrating the garrisons; The Northern War ends on a naval note; A delicate balance; The social and fiscal bases of durable military reform; The Persian finale; The Petrine army; Conclusion: Russia without Peter; Summary; Bibliographic notes; Glossary; Index |
| Summary |
Russia's emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I's radical programme of?Westernising' reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European concerns. In Russia's Wars of Emergence, Carol Belkin Stevens examines the social and political factors underpinning Muscovite military history, the eventual success of the Russian Empire and the sacrifices made for power |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317893301 |
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1317893301 |
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