Article: Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War and Mass Politics, 1905-1925.(Book review)

Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War and Mass Politics, 1905-1925, by Joshua A. Sanborn. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. x, 278 pp. $40.00 US (cloth).

Recent years have seen a wide-ranging and provocative re-appraisal of the role of World War One in Russian history. Historians of late imperial Russia writing before 1991--both Western and Soviet--were largely concerned to understand the significance of the war as the catalyst of two revolutions, the first resulting in the tsar's overthrow, the second bringing the Bolsheviks to power with promises of peace. Most of their work examined either the catastrophic ...

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