Russia's Turkish Wars. The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the 19th Century
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Russia's Turkish Wars. The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the 19th Century
19.99 €
As a result of the conquests of the Russo-Turkish Wars of the 19th century, Russian officials and military leaders faced the serious problem of managing the multi-ethnic population of the eastern Balkans. This challenge posed difficult dilemmas and questions: which ethnic groups to arm and which to deny? How to manage migration flows to replace the depopulated population and how to deal with Muslim refugees? How to maintain a balance in religious and confessional policy, the contradictions of which the opposing sides sought, depending on the realities on the battlefield, to strengthen or weaken? Based on previously unpublished archival materials and a wide range of primary sources, Victor Taki examines the interaction of the tsarist armed forces with the population of the Balkans after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. According to the author, the final decisions of the tsarist strategists and commanders reflected the 19th-century tendencies in rethinking the role of the “people” in military conflicts, and studying the approaches of the tsarist administration to population management in the Balkans allows us to take a new look at Russia’s imperial policy in the context of the global process of “democratization” of war. Victor Taki is a specialist in the history of Russia and Southeastern Europe in modern times, PhD, and lecturer in history at Concordia University in Edmonton, Canada.
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