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Stone, David R., 1968-

A military history of Russia : from Ivan the Terrible to the war in Chechnya / David R. Stone.

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.

xiv, 259 pages : maps ; 25 cm

"Integrating military history into the broader themes of Russian history, and drawing comparisons to developments in Europe, Stone traces Russia's fascinating military history, and its long struggle to master Western military technology without Western social and political institutions. Starting with the military dimensions of the emergence of Muscovy and the disastrous reign of Ivan the Terrible, he traces Russia's emergence as a great power under Peter the Great, and her mixed record following her triumph in the Napoleonic wars. The Russian Revolution created a new Soviet Russia, but this book shows how the Soviet Union's harrowing experience in World War II owed much to Imperial Russian precedents."--Jacket.

Praeger Security International.

Russia -- History, Military.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.

The rise of Muscovy -- The Time of Troubles -- The early Romanovs -- Peter the Great -- After Peter -- Catherine the Great -- The Napoleonic Wars -- Repression and defeat -- Reform and recovery -- The Russo-Japanese War -- World War I -- The Soviet experiment -- The Great Patriotic War -- The Soviet superpower -- The emergence of a new Russia.

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