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Russia's Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies. It reveals choices made by the tsarist strategists and commanders during the Russian-Ottoman wars, reflecting a general reconceptualization of the role of ""the people"" in modern warfare that took place during the nineteenth century. The book explores the tsarist military's engagement with the population of the Balkans in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It draws on previously unpublished materials from Russian archives as well as a broad range of published primary sources. Victor Taki recounts the discussions among Russian military men and the international relations of the nineteenth century. Russia's Turkish Wars ultimately provides a new perspective on both military change and Imperial Russia's Balkan entanglements.

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"""Russia's Turkish Wars traces an epochal shift in the European way of war: how military leaders in wartime abandoned the Old Regime tradition of treating civilian populations mainly as passive bystanders, and instead began to view them, based on ethnic and religious affinities, as either allies or enemies. Anyone interested in the origin of total war, ethnic cleansing, and other features of modern warfare should read this fascinating account of Russia's wars in the Balkans in the nineteenth century.""--Alexander M. Martin, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame ""Victor Taki has produced a very important and timely book in Russian military history. His examination of Russian tactical exploitation of national unrest in the western Black Sea region offers critical insight into the Russian military agitation around its present-day borders. Both brilliant and groundbreaking, the research chronicles Russian serial efforts to cultivate partisan allies, and to foment nationalist rebellions, within Ottoman held territory on the Black Sea. Russia's Turkish Wars is a must-read for anyone interested in Russian and Ottoman military history, frozen conflicts, the war in Ukraine, and the tragic weaponization of civil discontent.""--Mara Kozelsky, Professor of History, University of South Alabama"

""Russia's Turkish Wars traces an epochal shift in the European way of war: how military leaders in wartime abandoned the Old Regime tradition of treating civilian populations mainly as passive bystanders, and instead began to view them, based on ethnic and religious affinities, as either allies or enemies. Anyone interested in the origin of total war, ethnic cleansing, and other features of modern warfare should read this fascinating account of Russia's wars in the Balkans in the nineteenth century.""--Alexander M. Martin, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame ""Victor Taki has produced a very important and timely book in Russian military history. His examination of Russian tactical exploitation of national unrest in the western Black Sea region offers critical insight into the Russian military agitation around its present-day borders. Both brilliant and groundbreaking, the research chronicles Russian serial efforts to cultivate partisan allies, and to foment nationalist rebellions, within Ottoman held territory on the Black Sea. Russia's Turkish Wars is a must-read for anyone interested in Russian and Ottoman military history, frozen conflicts, the war in Ukraine, and the tragic weaponization of civil discontent.""--Mara Kozelsky, Professor of History, University of South Alabama

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Victor Taki is a sessional instructor of history at Concordia University of Edmonton and the author of Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman EmpireRussia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834.

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