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Crimea in War and Transformation is the first book to examine the terrible toll of violence on Crimean civilians and landscapes from mobilization through reconstruction.
When war landed on Crimea's coast in September 1854, multiple armies instantly doubled the peninsula's population. Engineering brigades mowed down forests to build barracks. Ravenous…
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Mara Kozelsky contributed a fantastic essay to Russia’s People of Empire on Archbishop Innokenty, the Orthodox official sent to Crimea in the 19th Century. In this book, she offers the most complete account yet of the effects of the Crimean War fought on that peninsula and elsewhere in the Russian Empire from 1854 to 1856.
The war is known here mostly for the Charge of the Light Brigade (made famous by Tennyson’s poem) or the crucial role played by Florence Nightingale, but as Kozelsky writes, the war had far-reaching, devastating consequences for imperial minorities within the Russian Empire and the…
From Stephen's list on understanding Russia’s empire in Ukraine.
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