Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History -- PART I: The Military and Society in Muscovy -- Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes (1313-1533) -- The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion -- In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century -- The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Muscovite Military Power in Transition -- Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Muscovite Military Command Style and Legacy to Russian Military History -- Evaluating Peter's Army: The Impact of Internal Organization -- PART II: Military and Society in Imperial Russia -- The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 -- The Russian Army in the Seven Years War -- Military Service and Social Hierarchy: The View from Eighteenth-Century Russian Theater -- The Nobility and the Officer Corps in the Nineteenth Century -- Imperial War Games (1898-1906): Symbolic Displays of Power or Practical Training? -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia -- "To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 -- PART III: Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military -- Battle for the Divine Sophia? Ivan IV's Campaigns against Polotsk and Novgorod -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 -- The Response of the Population of Moscow to the Napoleonic Occupation of 1812 -- The Holy Sepulcher and the Origin of the Crimean War.

Military Reform, Moral Reform, and the End of the Old Regime -- The Russian Military and the Jews in Galicia, 1914-15 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.