1st Edition
Muslims in the Russian Army Colonial Accommodation and the Limits of Empire, 1874 –1917
List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The military reform of 1874 and the challenges of empire; 2. Islam policies in the regular army: oath-taking, religious holidays, and military chaplains; 3. Fighting for the tsar: Volga-Ural Muslims in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877– 1878; 4. Military service in imperial politics and Muslim public discourse, 1905–1914; 5. Muslim soldiers in Russia’s First World War; 6. Conclusion and outlook; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Franziska Davies is Assistant Professor of Eastern European History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
“Davies argues for the need for historians to decenter ethnic Russian and Russian official voices when studying Russian imperial and Soviet history. This approach would allow for a fuller, more nuanced view of Russia’s past and present… Muslims in the Russian Army is a well-researched work and will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of Russian history, military history, and comparative colonial studies.”
Danielle Ross, Utah State University-Blanding, The Russian Review, (Vol. 85, No. 1)
