Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History -- Marshall Poe and Eric Lohr -- PART I -- The Military and Society in Muscovy -- Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes(1313-1533) -- Donald Ostrowski -- The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion -- Richard Hellie -- In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century -- J. T. Kotilaine -- The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition -- Brian Davies -- Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History -- Peter B. Brown -- Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization -- Carol Stevens -- PART II -- Military and Society in Imperial Russia -- The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 -- John P. LeDonne -- The Russian Army in the Seven Years War -- John L. H. Keep -- Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater -- Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter -- The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century -- Walter Pintner -- Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? -- John W. Steinberg -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia -- Gregory Vitarbo -- "To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 -- David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- PART III -- Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military -- Battle for the Divine Sophia? Ivan IV's Campaigns against Polotsk and Novgorod -- Sergei Bogatyrev -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War -- Janet Martin -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- William Reger IV -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtem -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 -- Nicholas B. Breyfogel -- The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812 -- Alexander M. Martin -- The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War -- David Goldfrank -- Military Reform, Moral Reform, and the End of the Old Regime -- Josh Sanbor -- The Russian Military and the Jews in Galicia, 1914-15 -- Alexander V Prusin.

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