Bayonets Before Bullets
The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10228320M
- ISBN-139780253213808
- ISBN-100253213800
- OCLC Control Number43945831
- OCLC Control Number25547079
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numberbayonetsbeforebu0000menn
- Library of Congress Control Number92008233
- LibraryThing546911
- Goodreads6919846
Classifications
- LCCUA770 .M467 2000
Description
Bayonets before Bullets is the first comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its modernization, 1861-1914. Bruce W. Menning surveys the development of organization, doctrine, and strategy from the aftermath of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War through the wars against Turkey in 1877-1878 and Japan in 1904-1905, to the eve of World War I. Describing how the Russian army organized, trained, and armed itself to fight during a critical era of change, Menning weaves analysis of reforms in technology and military art with lively accounts of combat operations and portraits of the personalities involved. Enhanced by superb battlefield maps, operational diagrams, and rare photographs of the leading Russian military commanders, Bayonets before Bullets provides a fascinating account of how the Imperial Russian Army struggled to modernize in a Darwinian world that dealt harshly with those who failed to adapt to changes in technology and military art.
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- Bayonets Before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
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