Military History of Tsarist Russia

FREDERICK W. KAGEN is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.ROBIN HIGHAM is Professor of History at Kansas State University.

• Introduction; F.W.Kagan & R.Higham The Foundations of Muscovite Military Power, 1453-1613; B.Davies The Romanov Transformation, 1613-1725; P.Bushkovitch The Imperial Russian Army, 1725-1796; B.Menning Paul I and Catherine II's Military Legacy, 1762-1801; B.Menning Russia's Wars with Napoleon, 1805-1815; F.W.Kagan The Russia's Small Wars, 1805-1861; F.W.Kagan The Russian Army 1853-1881; F.W.Kagan The Imperial Russian Navy, 1696-1900: The Ambiguous Legacy of Peter's 'Second Arm'; J.Kipp The Russo-Japanese War; D.Schimmelpenninck Mukden to Tannenberg: Defeat to Defeat, 1905-1917; B.Menning The Imperial Army in World War I, 1914-1917; D.Jones Russia's Geopolitical Dilemma and the Question of Backwardness; F.W.Kagan

'Both the scholar and the general reader will find good reading and good military history.' - Lt. Col Robert B. Kane, USAF Air and Space Power Journal '[a] very useful volume covering the period 1453-1917.' - David M. Goldfrank, The Historical Journal