AuthorPetrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
TitleJews in the Russian army, 1827-1917 : drafted into modernity / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009
Descript xvi, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

The Empire reforms, the community responds -- Militarizing the Jew, Judaizing the military -- "Let the children come to me": Jewish minors in the Cantonist battalions -- Universal draft and the singular Jews -- The Russian army's Jewish question -- The revolutionary draft -- Banished from modernity?


SUBJECT

  1. Russia. Armieiia -- History
  2. Jews -- Russia -- History
  3. Jewish soldiers -- Russia -- History
  4. Jewish children -- Government policy -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
  5. Russia -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting
  6. enlistment
  7. etc. -- History
  8. Russia -- Ethnic relations

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