War and enlightenment in Russia : military culture in the age of Catherine II /

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority and subordina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miakinkov, Eugene, 1984- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796. War and society > Russia > History > 18th century. Military art and science > Russia > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > Russia. Russia > History, Military > 18th century. Russia > History > Catherine II, 1762-1796.

Table of Contents:

Between Patronage and Education: The Enlightenmentand the Military Proto-Intelligentsia in Catherine's Russia
Favourites and Professionals: Merit, Seniority, and Advancement in Catherine's Military
"We must distinguish the military establishment from other callings": Writers and Ideas of the Russian Military Enlightenment
"Always remember that he is not a peasant, but a soldier": The Enlightenment and the Shaping of Russian Soldiers
"Fantastic forms of folly": Individualism and the Performance of Military Culture
"The gutters of the town were dyed with blood": The Siegeof Izmail, the Russian Military Culture, and the Limits of the Enlightenment at War
"His Majesty recommends to gentlemen-officers to dress better and not to stutter": Paul I and the Military Enlightenment.