Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925

by Joshua A. Sanborn

Book Overview

How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early twentieth century to show how military conscription helped to bind citizens and soldiers into a modern political community. The experience of total war, he shows, provided the means by which this multiethnic and multiclass community was constructed and tested.

Drafting the Russian Nation is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806635
• ISBN13: 9780875806631
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up