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Learning From Foreign Wars: Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

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9781906033613

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In writing of Russian efforts to learn from others, the author shows an excellent command of her subject ... One of the major contributions of the work is its extensive bibliography, which will in itself remain a valuable guide to historians of nineteenth-century Russian military history ... An extremely valuable contribution to the field. * Slavic Review * Persson has provided a valuable study of the Russian military as a learning institution at a critical juncture in its history. * The Russian Review * ...a useful new addition to the literature on the late Imperial Russian army. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *

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"Gudrun Persson is a lecturer at Stockholm University, specializing in Russian reform periods and focusing on military reforms. She received her Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published several books and articles on these subjects, The Russian Military Attaches and the Wars of the 1860s - A Case for Reform.A"" in Reforming the Tsar's Army, eds. David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004, Why did the Soviet Union Fall? SNS, Stockholm 2006 (in Swedish). Russia - In Search for a Constitution in Constitutions and Political Systems in Europe, the USA, and Asia, ed. Anders Mellbourn, Sekel forlag, 2009 (in Swedish). She is currently working on a history of the military as an element in Russian and Soviet history."

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