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From Serf to Russian Soldier
By (Author) Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural anthropology
355.1
Hardback
236
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
624g
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, El