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

The Praetorian Option 261 the 579 men officially listed (in 1827) as having been involved in the affair^53 78.8 per cent were se ...

(^262) Gentlemen to Officers societies. Units were periodically relocated or called out on manoeuvres. Officers might be transfe ...

The Praetorian Option 263 derived strong republican convictions. Other dissident officers were impressed by his erudition and ea ...

264 Gentlemen to Officers be understood only against the background of the protest movement which was developing in the army at ...

The Praetorian Option 265 Wittgenstein, commander of the Second Army in the south, was set in a differ- ent mould. The liberal V ...

Gentlemen to Officers solute (as is sometimes implied), for Pester himself, disenchanted at the ol reception given to his ideas, ...

The PraC'torian Option 267 programmatic and tactical questions from a slightly different standpoint, due not least to the fact t ...

8 Gentlemen to Officers :laimed Ensign A. I. Odoyevsky, a noted poet. Their civic heroism, as one torian puts it, was tinged wit ...

The Praetorian Oplivn 269 A comparable number were killed or injured in the second insurrection, staged in the south independent ...

270 Gentlemen to Ojjicers opm1ons. Their attitude towards their officers' efforts on their behalf was necessarily ambiguous (see ...

The Praetorian Opt ion 271 use Perlmutter's terminology for different types of Praetorian rule. This need not have mattered much ...

272 Gentlemen to Officers None of the above 3ainsays the fact that the insurgents' aims were by and large beneficent, or that th ...

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12 THE .A .. R!\1Y Tl\KES TO THE COUNTRYSIDE T111<ot11,11rn11 h1rope lhe biller experie1H:es of the Frcm:h revolutionary and ...

276 The Military Sel//ements Although ultimately abandoned, the set1lement project affected the lives of :;everal hundred thousa ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 277 The treaty of Adrianople ( 1713) pushed Russia's frontier in the rnuth-west back to a line ...

I llL "lllliUI) jt;:i/il'/flt'fll.\ had to withstand rigorous conditions, as is plain from the memoirs left by one of their offi ...

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