TY - BOOK ID - 2373381 TI - From Serf to Russian Soldier PY - 2014 SN - 0691055858 1322018332 9781322018331 9781400860999 1400860997 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Serfdom KW - Military & Naval Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Military Science - General KW - History KW - Servitude KW - Forced labor KW - Land tenure KW - Slavery KW - Villeinage KW - Law and legislation KW - Russia. Armiia KW - Military life KW - 19th century KW - Soviet Union KW - Armed Forces KW - Russia -- Armed Forces -- Military life -- History -- 19th century. KW - Russia. -- Armi︠i︡a -- Military life -- History -- 19th century. KW - Serfdom -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. KW - Russia. KW - Russia KW - Российская Армия KW - Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2373381 AB - Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, Elise Wirtschafter contributes greatly to our understanding of Russia's complex social structure. Based on extensive research in previously unused Soviet archives, this work covers a wide array of topics relating to daily life in the army, including conscription, promotion and social mobility, family status, training, the regimental economy, military justice, and relations between soldiers and officers. The author emphasizes social relations and norms of behavior in the army, but she also addresses the larger issue of society's relationship to the autocracy, including the persistent tension between the tsarist state's need for military efficiency and its countervailing need to uphold the traditional norms of unlimited paternalistic authority. By examining military life in terms of its impact on soldiers, she analyzes two major concerns of tsarist social policy: how to mobilize society's resources to meet state needs and how to promote modernization (in this case military efficiency) without disturbing social arrangements founded on serfdom.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -