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Joseph Bradley - Guns for the Tsar, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, Ryska, 2022

Guns for the Tsar

American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Av Joseph Bradley

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This is a detailed study of the development of the Russian small arms industry. Humiliated in the Crimean War, Russia turned to the United States for help. Using archival sources, Bradley, author of Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia (Univ. of California Pr., 1985), describes the role of famous gunsmiths like Colt, Smith, and Wesson; they provided Russia with machinery, tools, production techniques, and even workers to build an independent arms industry. Assimilation was only partially successful; an inflexible economy hindered military modernization. A 30-page bibliography and 40 pages of footnotes testify to Bradley's meticulous research and academic style. Recommended for specialists.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-07
  • Mått: 152 x 228 x 29 mm
  • Vikt: 674 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska, Ryska
  • Antal sidor: 362
  • Förlag: Academic Studies Press
  • ISBN: 9781644698099
  • Översättare: Andrei Grishin
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Joseph Bradley is a Professor Emeritus of History in the College of Arts & Sciences History. He has a BA in the University of Wisconsin, and MA and PhD in Harvard University. Bradley's research has focused on the processes of social and cultural change and the interaction between the state and society in tsarist Russia. His first two books studied the strains on urban infrastructure posed by massive peasant immigration as well as government efforts to transform the Russian small arms industry. His third book examined the role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in imperial Russia.

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