A military history of Russia : from Ivan the Terrible to the war in Chechnya

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A military history of Russia : from Ivan the Terrible to the war in Chechnya

David R. Stone

Praeger Security International, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index

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収録内容

  • The rise of Muscovy
  • The Time of Troubles
  • The early Romanovs
  • Peter the Great
  • After Peter
  • Catherine the Great
  • The Napoleonic Wars
  • Repression and defeat
  • Reform and recovery
  • The Russo-Japanese War
  • World War I
  • The Soviet experiment
  • The Great Patriotic War
  • The Soviet superpower
  • The emergence of a new Russia

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内容説明

This book brings to light Russia's undeservedly-obscure military past, rectifying the tendency of American and Western military historians to neglect the Russian side of things. Russia, as both a Western and non-Western society, challenges our thinking about Western military superiority. Russia has always struggled with backwardness in comparison with more developed powers, at some times more successfully than others. The imperatives of survival in a competitive international environment have, moreover, produced in Russian society a high degree of militarization. While including operational and tactical detail that appeals to military history enthusiasts, this book simultaneously integrates military history into the broader themes of Russian history and draws comparisons to developments in Europe. The book also challenges old assumptions about the Russian military. Russian military history cannot be summed up simply in a single stock phrase, whether perennial incompetence or success only through stolid, stoic defense; it also shows numerous examples of striking offensive successes. Stone traces Russia's fascinating military history, and its long struggle to master Western military technology without Western social and political institutions. It covers the military dimensions of the emergence of Muscovy, the disastrous reign of Ivan the Terrible, and the subsequent creation of the new Romanov dynasty. It deals with Russia's emergence as a great power under Peter the Great and culminating in the defeat of Napoleon. After that triumph, the book argues, Russia's social and economic stagnation undermined its enormous military power and brought catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War. The book then covers imperial Russia's long struggle to reform its military machine, with mixed results in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. The Russian Revolution created a new Soviet Russia, but this book shows the continuity across that divide. The Soviet Union's interwar innovations and its harrowing experience in World War II owed much to imperial Russian precedents. A superpower after the war, the Soviet Union's military might was purchased at the expense of continuing economic backwardness. Paradoxically, the very militarization intended to provide security instead destroyed the Soviet Union, leaving a new Russia behind the West economically. Just as there was a great deal of continuity after 1917, this book demonstrates how the new Russian military has inherited many of its current problems from its Soviet predecessor. The price that Russia has paid for its continued existence as a great power, therefore, is the overwhelming militarization of its society and economy, a situation it continues to struggle with.

目次

List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Rise of Muscovy 2 The Time of Troubles 3 The Early Romanovs 4 Peter the Great 5 After Peter 6 Catherine the Great 7 The Napoleonic Wars 8 Repression and Defeat 9 Reform and Recovery 10 The Russo-Japanese War 11 World War I 12 The Soviet Experiment 13 The Great Patriotic War 14 The Soviet Superpower 15 The Emergence of a New Russia Suggested Reading Index

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