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* Dale, Robert. "Rats and Resentment: The Demobilization of the Red Army in Postwar Leningrad, 1945—50." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 45.1 (2010): 113-133
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* Davies, Brian L. "The Development of Russian Military Power 1453–1815." in Jeremy Black, ed., ''European Warfare 1453–1815'' (Macmillan Education UK, 1999) pp. 145–179. * De Madariaga, Isabel. ''Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great'' (2002).r, William C. ''Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914'' (1998
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* Daugherty III, Leo J. "'Through a Looking Glass': The United States Army Looks at the Red Army of Workers and Peasants 1919–1926." ''Journal of Slavic Military Studies'' 22.1 (2009): 125-142. * Dowling, Timothy. ''The Brusilov Offensive'' (Indiana UP, 2008). * Duffy, Christopher. ''Russia's Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power, 1700–1800'' (Routledge, 1981) * Fuller, Jr., William C. ''Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600–1914'' (1992) * Glantz, David M. and Jonathan M. House. ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler'' (UP of Kansas, 1995) * Hagen, Mark. ''Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship'' (Cornell UP, 2019) on 1920s. * Harrison, Richard W. ''The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904-1940'' (2001
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* Hartley, Janet M. ''Russia, 1762-1825: military power, the state, and the people'' (ABC-CLIO, 2008). * pp 63–91. * Kagan, Frederick, and Robin Higham, eds. ''The Military History of Tsarist Russia'' (2008
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* Keep, John. ''Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462–1874'' (Oxford UP, 1985). * LeDonne, John P. ''The Russian Empire and the World, 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment'' (Oxford UP, 1997) * LeDonne, John P. ''The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831'' (Oxford UP, 2004). * Lehrke, Jesse Paul. ''The transition to national armies in the former Soviet republics, 1988-2005'' (Routledge, 2013). * Lieven, Dominic. ''Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace'' (2011). * Lincoln, W. Bruce. ''Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914–1918'' (1986), popular history. * Lohr, Eric. "The Russian Army in World War I." ''Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History'' 17.3 (2016): 688-697
online
* Menning, Bruce W. "Russian military innovation in the second half of the eighteenth Century." ''War & Society'' (1984) 2#1 pp. 23–41
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* Miner, Steven M. "Military Crisis and Social Change in Russian and Soviet History." in ''Soviet National Security Policy Under Perestroika'' (Routledge, 2021) pp. 29-46. * Overy, Richard. ''Russia's War'' (1998), on World War II * Paul, Michael C. “The Military Revolution in Russia, 1550–1682,” ''Journal of Military History'' 68#1 (January 2004), pp. 9–46. * Reese, Roger. ''The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917–1991'' (Routledge, 2000) * Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. and Mark D. Steinberg. ''A History of Russia'' (7th ed. 2004) 800 pages. * Roberts, Geoffrey. ''Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953'' (2008
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* Robinson, Paul. "A Study of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, 1914–1915." ''Historian'' 75.3 (2013): 475-498. * Sanborn, Josh. "The mobilization of 1914 and the question of the Russian nation: A reexamination." ''Slavic Review'' 59.2 (2000): 267-289
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* Sanborn, Joshua. "The genesis of Russian warlordism: Violence and governance during the First World War and the Civil War." ''Contemporary European History'' 19.3 (2010): 195-213. * Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David, and Bruce Menning, eds. ''Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution'' (Cambridge UP, 2004). scholarly essays * Sirotkina, Irina. "7. The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918." in ''Madness and the mad in Russian culture'' (University of Toronto Press, 2016) pp. 117-129. * Steinberg, John W. "The military history of Romanov Russia." ''War & Society'' (2021): 1-14. * Steinberg, John W. et al. eds. ''The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero'' (Leiden: Brill, 2005). * Stoff, Laurie. "They Fought for Russia: Female Soldiers of the First World War." in ''A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military'' (2000). * Stone, David. ''A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya'' (2006
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* Stone, David R. ''The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917'' (University Press of Kansas, 2015) * Stone, Norman. ''The Eastern Front 1914–1917'' (Scribner's, 1975). * Turner, Leonard Charles Frederick. "The Russian Mobilization in 1914." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 3.1 (1968): 65-88. * Wildman, Allan K. ''The End of the Russian Imperial Army'' (Princeton University Press, 1980).
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The military history
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of the modern-day Russian Federation
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has antecedents involving Kievan Rus'
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and some of the Rus' principalities that succeeded it, the Mongol invasion
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of the early 13th century, Russia's numerous wars against Turkey, against Poland
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, Lithuania
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and Sweden
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, the Seven Years' War
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, France (especially the Napoleonic Wars
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), and the Crimean War
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of 1853–1856. The 20th century saw defeat by Imperial Germany in World War I
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and an extremely costly victory over Nazi Germany in World War II
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, as well as smaller military actions against breakaway provinces and Poland. During the Cold War
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(1947 to 1990) the greatly enlarged military suppressed rebellions in Eastern Europe and became a nuclear superpower facing off against NATO
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and the United States, as well as China after 1960. The post-Cold War military history of the Russian Federation itself began in 1991.
Period surveys include:
* the military history of Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas o ...
and other states leading up to Muscovy (the Grand Duchy of Moscow
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)
* the Tsardom of Russia
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* Military history of the Russian Empire
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* Military history of the Soviet Union
* Military history of the Russian Federation
See also
*History of Russia
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* Foreign policy of the Russian Empire
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* Russo-Turkish wars
* Russia and the Middle East {{Short description, Relationships between
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* Timeline of Russian history
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* Timeline of Russian innovation
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The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories:
* indigenous invent ...
* List of wars involving Russia
Further reading
* Captivating History. ''The Eastern Front: A Captivating Guide to Soviet Union in World War 2, the Winter War, Siege of Leningrad, Operation Barbarossa and Battle of Stalingrad'' (2020excerpt
* Dale, Robert. "Rats and Resentment: The Demobilization of the Red Army in Postwar Leningrad, 1945—50." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 45.1 (2010): 113-133
online
* Davies, Brian L. "The Development of Russian Military Power 1453–1815." in Jeremy Black, ed., ''European Warfare 1453–1815'' (Macmillan Education UK, 1999) pp. 145–179. * De Madariaga, Isabel. ''Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great'' (2002).r, William C. ''Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914'' (1998
excerpts
* Daugherty III, Leo J. "'Through a Looking Glass': The United States Army Looks at the Red Army of Workers and Peasants 1919–1926." ''Journal of Slavic Military Studies'' 22.1 (2009): 125-142. * Dowling, Timothy. ''The Brusilov Offensive'' (Indiana UP, 2008). * Duffy, Christopher. ''Russia's Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power, 1700–1800'' (Routledge, 1981) * Fuller, Jr., William C. ''Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600–1914'' (1992) * Glantz, David M. and Jonathan M. House. ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler'' (UP of Kansas, 1995) * Hagen, Mark. ''Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship'' (Cornell UP, 2019) on 1920s. * Harrison, Richard W. ''The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904-1940'' (2001
excerpt
* Hartley, Janet M. ''Russia, 1762-1825: military power, the state, and the people'' (ABC-CLIO, 2008). * pp 63–91. * Kagan, Frederick, and Robin Higham, eds. ''The Military History of Tsarist Russia'' (2008
excerpts
* Keep, John. ''Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462–1874'' (Oxford UP, 1985). * LeDonne, John P. ''The Russian Empire and the World, 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment'' (Oxford UP, 1997) * LeDonne, John P. ''The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831'' (Oxford UP, 2004). * Lehrke, Jesse Paul. ''The transition to national armies in the former Soviet republics, 1988-2005'' (Routledge, 2013). * Lieven, Dominic. ''Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace'' (2011). * Lincoln, W. Bruce. ''Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914–1918'' (1986), popular history. * Lohr, Eric. "The Russian Army in World War I." ''Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History'' 17.3 (2016): 688-697
online
* Menning, Bruce W. "Russian military innovation in the second half of the eighteenth Century." ''War & Society'' (1984) 2#1 pp. 23–41
online
* Miner, Steven M. "Military Crisis and Social Change in Russian and Soviet History." in ''Soviet National Security Policy Under Perestroika'' (Routledge, 2021) pp. 29-46. * Overy, Richard. ''Russia's War'' (1998), on World War II * Paul, Michael C. “The Military Revolution in Russia, 1550–1682,” ''Journal of Military History'' 68#1 (January 2004), pp. 9–46. * Reese, Roger. ''The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917–1991'' (Routledge, 2000) * Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. and Mark D. Steinberg. ''A History of Russia'' (7th ed. 2004) 800 pages. * Roberts, Geoffrey. ''Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953'' (2008
excerpt and text search
* Robinson, Paul. "A Study of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, 1914–1915." ''Historian'' 75.3 (2013): 475-498. * Sanborn, Josh. "The mobilization of 1914 and the question of the Russian nation: A reexamination." ''Slavic Review'' 59.2 (2000): 267-289
online
* Sanborn, Joshua. "The genesis of Russian warlordism: Violence and governance during the First World War and the Civil War." ''Contemporary European History'' 19.3 (2010): 195-213. * Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David, and Bruce Menning, eds. ''Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution'' (Cambridge UP, 2004). scholarly essays * Sirotkina, Irina. "7. The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918." in ''Madness and the mad in Russian culture'' (University of Toronto Press, 2016) pp. 117-129. * Steinberg, John W. "The military history of Romanov Russia." ''War & Society'' (2021): 1-14. * Steinberg, John W. et al. eds. ''The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero'' (Leiden: Brill, 2005). * Stoff, Laurie. "They Fought for Russia: Female Soldiers of the First World War." in ''A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military'' (2000). * Stone, David. ''A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya'' (2006
excerpts
* Stone, David R. ''The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917'' (University Press of Kansas, 2015) * Stone, Norman. ''The Eastern Front 1914–1917'' (Scribner's, 1975). * Turner, Leonard Charles Frederick. "The Russian Mobilization in 1914." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 3.1 (1968): 65-88. * Wildman, Allan K. ''The End of the Russian Imperial Army'' (Princeton University Press, 1980).
External links
"Russian Military History" a guide by Reina Pennington
Mark Conrad's Home Page - Russian Military History
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