Soldiers of the Tsar. Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874 - John L. Keep

The Mind in the Machine 219 The peasants for their part by and large looked on the members of this 'prouc fraternity' as alien o ...

20 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 If such was the fate of a Great Russian aristocrat, one can imagine the ·eatment meted out to ...

The Mind in the Machine 221 work on it; some officers who turned up out of curiosity saw the disorder and chased the men away, b ...

(^222) The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 their backsides'.^97 (Incidentally, this practice, although kept an official secret, can ...

The Mind in the Machine 223 also lower than that in other European armies, but since the latter included large numbers of mercen ...

224 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 Investigators invariably questioned those they caught as to the exact route they had taken a ...

The Mind in the Machine 225 It was Alexander I, too, who took stern measures to close the western border to defectors, whether m ...

226 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 The risk of this 'iron curtain' policy was that it bottled up frustrations which might explo ...

The Mind in the Machine 227 character, perhaps involving Ukrainian autonomist sympathies as well as con- cern for Cossack rights ...

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10 BIRTH OF THE MILITARY INTELLIGENTSIA How could the Russian soldier of the early Imperial era hope to escape hi sorry plight? ...

232 Gentlemen to Officers although with certain changes of emphasis necessitated by Marxist-Leninist doctrine. From the 1930s on ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 233 Paul, and then by the brutal manner in which it was terminated in the coup d'etat of 1 ...

234 Gentlemen to Officers of 31 December 1736, issued on the outbreak of war with Turkey, which had a propagandist intent and wa ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 235 earth to compare with this reward'.^14 Subsequent advancement up the hier- archy of chi ...

236 Gentlemen to Officers of status and rank. It was in this way that they defined their self-image and their relationship to th ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 237 The purchasing power of officers' pay seems to have improved, even though the nominal r ...

(^238) Gentlemen to Officers also headed a cuirassier regiment in that region during the 1790s, held a weekly feast for his offi ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 239 much should be made of it.^42 Cavalry officers were wealthier than their infan- try cou ...

240 Gentlemen to Officers armies at this time. Noble status conferred important advantages as regards entry into the officer cor ...