
Learning from Foreign Wars
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transliteration and Dates
- 1 The Nation in Arms: Military Development 1859-1871
- 2 Reforming the Russian Army
- 3 The Eyes of the Tsar: The Russian Military Attachés
- 4 Lessons from Foreign Wars:the Military Debate and the General Staff Academy
- 5 Facing the Enemy - the Strategic Conference in 1873
- Conclusions
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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