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

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'to make the native inhabitants and the soldiers a single whole'^101 created ;
strange form of agrarian militarism. In the twentieth century Russian (an(
especially Ukrainian) farmers wn11ld recall it as an awesome μ11::1.:edent.


101 :\I. Speransky ( 1825), in Kartsov, ·o voyennykh po~deniyakh ', 4, p. 145.
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