The Tsar’s Colonels - Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia

on the structural roots of the Great War, and on the theoretical problems of modernization and professionalization.

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About the author

David Alan Rich is an independent scholar and a researcher at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Summary

David Alan Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state.

Product details

• Authors: David Alan Rich, Rich David Alan, David A. Richard
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.1999
• EAN: 9780674911116
• ISBN: 978-0-674-91111-6
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: 5 computer line illustrations, 5 (8 pp.) tables
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sociology & anthropology, Warfare and defence, Central / national / federal government policies, HISTORY / Russia / General