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Military coups have plagued many countries around the world, but Russia, despite its tumultuous history, has not experienced a successful military coup in over two centuries. In a series of detailed case studies, Brian Taylor explains the political role of the Russian military. Drawing on a wealth of new material, including archives and interviews, Taylor discusses every case of actual or potential military intervention in Russian politics from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Taylor analyzes in particular detail the army's behavior during the political revolutions that marked the beginning and end of the twentieth century, two periods when the military was, uncharacteristically, heavily involved in domestic politics. He argues that a common thread unites the late-Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russian army: an organizational culture that believes that intervention against the country's political leadership - whether tsar, general secretary, or president - is fundamentally illegitimate.

Civil-military relations --- Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire --- History. --- Histoire --- Russia --- History --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia. Armiia --- Political activity --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Russia. --- 355.24 <47> --- 355.24 <47> Mobilisatie. Relatie leger burgerbevolking--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Mobilisatie. Relatie leger burgerbevolking--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Российская Армия --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡

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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.

Serfdom --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Science - General --- History --- Servitude --- Forced labor --- Land tenure --- Slavery --- Villeinage --- Law and legislation --- Russia. Armiia --- Military life --- 19th century --- Soviet Union --- Armed Forces --- Russia -- Armed Forces -- Military life -- History -- 19th century. --- Russia. -- Armi︠i︡a -- Military life -- History -- 19th century. --- Serfdom -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. --- Russia. --- Russia --- Российская Армия --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)