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

An Age of Reform 361 to his support. Eleven of them yielded under pressure, but 115 were indeed relegated at their own request, ...

362 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 nant W. Kaplinski (V. T. Kaplinsky), was arrested in Warsaw. In June two subalterns and an ...

An Age of Reform 363 KCN would pay for. Although Land and Liberty did not provoke the Poles into premature action, as one Polish ...

364 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 which is much better known. Its vigour was partly due to the fact that Russia had been defe ...

An Age of Reform 365 trying to bring about. Before the new military statute (which replaced that of 1R~9) an(i pe-naJ t:ode rece ...

(^366) Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 fatigues and extra turns of duty.^71 A soldier so penalized had the right to com- plain, ...

An Age of Reform 367 detail how inmates were to be housed, fed, and even taught to read.^78 There '.'.'ere to be 16 such establi ...

368 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 meant not only barracks and bases but also the large areas of the empire under 'enhanced pr ...

An Age of Reform 369 and 55 privates in the crack Yamburg Ulans made a collective protest. The tsar reversed an obviously biased ...

(^370) Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 working day, and the cost was frequently met from the sums which units set aside to buy ...

An Age of Reform 371 The army authorities were quite understandably more concerned with im- proving officers' education. l. fu!! ...

(^372) Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 the top. Most younger and better educated officers identified with the reform movement. ...

An Age of Reform 373 it may have mattered more that soldiers now had a better chance of receiving their deserts. In the supply f ...

374 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 authorities reporting 'unfavourable hygienic conditions' in the west and 'miasmatic swamp v ...

An Age of Reform 375 years.^131 In 1859 a minor war scare led to the call-up of some reservists, but the earlier concession was ...

376 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 ' In 1869 Milyutin returned to the charge. By this time the number of reser- tists (533,000 ...

An Age of Reform 377 higher scholastic attainments-and from privileged backgrounds. This was because only as many volunteers cou ...

378 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 less than I per cent (this figure evidently excludes volunteers).^158 Those with duly certi ...

An Age of Reform 3-; another, regardless of their applicability to the concrete circumstances Russ faced. In this contest the po ...

organization of depots in advance.^164 Maladministration and corruption in the rear echelons continued to plague the Imperial Ru ...