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Roger R. Reese, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917
Despite the title, this book is neither an institutional nor a combat history of the Imperial Russian Army over the last six decades of its existence. Rather, it is a social history of the army’s officer corps, and, to a lesser extent, of the army’s soldiery, with an emphasis on relations between the two.
Bruce Menning
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Drunkenness and Disorder in the Imperial Russian Army
AbstractDrunkenness was a serious matter in the Imperial Russian military because of its potential to create disorder within an institution that was a central part of the disciplinary apparatus of the Russian Empire. Changes made to the military as part of the Great Reforms were intended to restore it to glory after its defeat in the Crimean War ...
Alison K Smith
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Russian Sources Articles in Journals Арапов Д.Ю. «Учредить штатные должности военных магометанских мулл » // Военно-исторический журнал, 2003, # 4, c. 73. Арапов Д.Ю. « Можно отметить ряд высоких подвигов воинской доблести проявленных мусульманами » // Военно-исторический журнал, 2004, # 11, c. 43.
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
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Automobile transport and armored car military units of the Russian Imperial Army. 1896–1917s [PDF]
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century a rapid process of preparation for the war of the countries of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente took place, which was accompanied by an the increase in the size of the army ...
M. S. Novikov
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With the creation of the Lithuanian armed forces in the early 20th century, the question of having officers loyal to the idea of the nation-state inevitably arose.
Kęstutis Kilinskas
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An unwilling officer: the engineer Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev in the era of social cataclysms [PDF]
In this article, through the prism of the anthropological approach and the theory of social adaptation, the biography of the representative of the Russian technical intelligentsia Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev is analyzed.
D. I. Petin
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In the spring of 1775, in order to punish the Kaitag Utsmi Amir-Hamza, a military expedition of Russian troops under the command of General Medem was sent to Dagestan, after which, at the invitation of Fatali Khan of Derbent, these troops entered the ...
David Merkviladze
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Special Detachment for the Protection of Members of the Imperial Family in the Crimea in October, 1918 — April, 1919 [PDF]
This essay on the history of creation and functioning of the “Special Purpose Detachment for the Protection of Persons of the Imperial Family in Crimea” written after World War II by Colonel Sergey Alexandrovich Apukhtin, Assistant Commander of the ...
Alexander K. Klementiev
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We consider one of the most difficult periods of the First World War for the Russian army – the “Great Retreat” of 1915. The behavior of the officer corps and soldiers of four regiments of the 7th Infantry Division of the Imperial Army in the conditions ...
V. V. Kanishchev
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The establishment of the power of the Bolsheviks entailed the problem of social adaptation to the new political and socio-economic realities, first of all, representatives of the former privileged groups of the population, including former officers.
P. S. Rakhmanov
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