Based on memoirs of former Cantonists and their contemporaries, describes the fate of Jewish servicemen in the Russian army during the rule of Nicholas I, befor
This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untran
The first systematic and comparative study of growth of military conscription in Europe An innovative fusion of primary empirical research and postmodern philos