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Russia’s Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies. It reveals that choices made by the tsarist strategists and commanders during the Russian-Ottoman wars reflect a general reconceptualization of the role of “the people” in modern warfare that took place during the nineteenth century.
The book explores the tsarist military’s engagement with the population of the Balkans in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It draws on previously unpublished materials from Russian archives as well as a broad range of published primary sources. Victor Taki relates the discussions among Russian military men to the international relations of the nineteenth century. Russia’s Turkish Wars ultimately provides a new perspective on both Imperial Russia’s Balkan entanglements and military change in the nineteenth century.
This book explores Russia’s recurrent wars with the Ottoman Empire as an important and largely neglected angle on the genesis of modern warfare.
- Imprint: University of Toronto Press
- Published: March 2024
- Pages: 344
Victor Taki is a sessional instructor of history at Concordia University of Edmonton and the author of Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire and Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834.