Jews 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
Russia. Armieiia -- History
Jews -- Russia -- History
Jewish soldiers -- Russia -- History
Jewish children -- Government policy -- Russia -- History -- 19th century