"A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty."--Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University.
"A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty."--Richar...
In the early morning of March 19, 1915, Lt. Colonel S. N. Miasoedov, a former gendarme officer on active duty with the Russian army in World War I, was hanged after a two-hour trial in Warsaw for treason. Although he was innocent of this charge, Miasoedov's hasty execution, set against the army's disastrous performance in the war against Germany, touched off a wave of "spy mania" that resulted in hundreds of arrests and eventually involved the highest reaches of the Russian Empire, including the minister of war, General V. A. Sukhomlinov, who was arrested for the same crime the following...
In the early morning of March 19, 1915, Lt. Colonel S. N. Miasoedov, a former gendarme officer on active duty with the Russian army in World War I, wa...
This book is a full-scale study in English of tsarist civil-military relations in the last decades of the Russian Empire.
Originally published in 1985.
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This book is a full-scale study in English of tsarist civil-military relations in the last decades of the Russian Empire.
