%0 Journal Article
%T Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity
%A Theodore R. Weeks
%J Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
%D 2009
%I Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Soci¨¦t¨¦s et les Institutions Post-Sovi¨¦tiques
%X For some time now historians of the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe and especially in Russia have been demonstrating that the ¡°lachrymose history¡± that still lives on in popular memory is one-sided, distorted, and more akin to myth than to ¡°objective history¡± (if one may use such a reactionary term). Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern¡¯s new book which is only in part a translation of his earlier (and considerably longer) Evrei v russkoi armii, 1827-1914 (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2003) ...
%K Jews in the Russian Army
%K Non-Russians in the Army
%K Russia
%K History
%K Social History
%U http://pipss.revues.org/2313