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Lexington Books, 2021
Eastern Europe circa 1450–1500 was an area of great change dictated by war. The Golden Horde, Eurasian super-empire, collapsed. Lithuania, the power from the Baltic to the Black Sea, fell into the Civil War. Poland, inspired by its vigour of the Christian bulwark, moved east. Moscow rose from the debris of its Dynastic War and moved west to merge all former Rus’. The Ottomans advanced north from the Black Sea in alliance with the Crimean Khanate. Sweden descended into the Eastern Baltic. The Kazan Khanate rose to the world-system position in Northern Eurasia. The rivals wrestled the territories for their nation-building and resources for the hegemonic struggle that was impending. That clash of enormous magnitude happened when the firearms in Eastern Europe were exotic, and the bureaucracy was primitive. Nonetheless, the East European forces produced the critical geopolitical changes usually ascribed to later armies packed with firearms and shaped by absolutist regimes. This book presents research on the conflict. The military models of contenders are confronted in action against each other and compared with the military transformation in Western Europe. It discovers an interaction between changes of warfare, technical, tactical, organizational, and social and political phenomena of nation-building and international relations. This book researches the armed conflict in Eastern Europe circa 1450–1500. It compares the military models of its participants with the transformation in Western Europe and discovers an interaction between warfare and phenomena of nation-building and international relations.
War on the Eve of Nations. Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450–1500.
Lexington Books. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2021
Eastern Europe circa 1450–1500 was an area of great change dictated by war. The Golden Horde, Eurasian super-empire, collapsed. Lithuania, the power from the Baltic to the Black Sea, fell into the Civil War. Poland, inspired by its vigour of the Christian bulwark, moved east. Moscow rose from the debris of its Dynastic War and moved west to merge all former Rus’. The Ottomans advanced north from the Black Sea in alliance with the Crimean Khanate. Sweden descended into the Eastern Baltic. The Kazan Khanate rose to the world-system position in Northern Eurasia. The rivals wrestled the territories for their nation-building and resources for the hegemonic struggle that was impending. That clash of enormous magnitude happened when the firearms in Eastern Europe were exotic, and the bureaucracy was primitive. Nonetheless, the East European forces produced the critical geopolitical changes usually ascribed to later armies packed with firearms and shaped by absolutist regimes. This book presents research on the conflict. The military models of contenders are confronted in action against each other and compared with the military transformation in Western Europe. It discovers an interaction between changes of warfare, technical, tactical, organizational, and social and political phenomena of nation-building and international relations. This book researches the armed conflict in Eastern Europe circa 1450–1500. It compares the military models of its participants with the transformation in Western Europe and discovers an interaction between warfare and phenomena of nation-building and international relations.
"Eastern Europe" and War. Introduction to the Special Issue
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2024
The present collection of papers is a joint effort aimed at making sense of the changes that Russia's war against Ukraine ushered into the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We have invited a team of authors working on the two subregions, the Visegrád Four and the Baltic Three, to share their reflections on how the full-scale invasion has impacted the transformations in the respective countries' regional outlook. The "kidnapping" as an overarching theme of our forum is an image that refers us to the Cold War and the history of forceful subjugation of CEE countries to foreign imperial domination as a result of aggressive wars and the spheres of influence politics in Europe. As we now clearly see, that is a part of European history that, for the moment, refuses to become history tout court.
Vladimir Shirogorov. Quo Vadis. The Military Revolution in Eastern Europe
Global Military Transformations: Change and Continuity, 1450-1800 Edited by Jeremy Black, 2023
The concept of the military revolution is a go-to research paradigm for studies on the Early Modern Period. However, it lacks an accepted definition or established theoretical framework. These omissions allow scholars to choose from a wide range of interpretations, from presenting the military revolution as a reportage from battlefields, or a sociological “ideal type” to complete negation. The current essay is committed to disentangle the web of the military revolution’s history and historiography. It tracks warfare determinants during the Early Modern transformation of East-European nations and compares the socio-political impact of their respective military changes. The essay also proposes a periodization of the military revolution’s epoch in conjunction to the concept of the fiscal-military state.
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE «MILITARY REVOLUTION» CONCEPT: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REMARKS
The concept of a «military revolution» was formulated in the British historiography in the mid-XXth century (The term «military revolution» for a designation of this overturn has been entered by the British historian M.Roberts in 1955). It includes the emergence of the large permanent professional armies with a predominance of infantry and artillery, new forms of organization, combat training and methods of warfare. The fire-arms wide circulation has led to the revolution in the art of war. It has caused serious changes in the political, economic, social spheres at first in the West European society, and then in the neighbor states. This concept had an extremely strong influence on the development of the research of the nature of the army, society and the state of Early Modern times. Studies discovering the development of military institutes in different regions of Europe, their influence on the formation of centralized states and the transcontinental expansion of European civilization have led to a series of heated discussions that continued till today. The problems of the influence of the «military revolution» on the historical fate of the countries of Eastern Europe and the peculiarities of its evolution hold a specific place. The article reflects the basic trends of studying of a concept of military revolution in Eastern Europe region and a present condition of a problem in the contemporary historiography.
The pages on the emergence of Ukraine and conflict over it from War on the Eve of Nations
The pages on the emergence of Ukraine and conflict over it from War on the Eve of Nations , 2021
The pages on the emergence of Ukraine and conflict over it from Vladimir Shirogorov. War on the Eve of Nations. Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450–1500 Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2021 The latest events around Ukraine gain global alert. The attention calls for the study of East-European military history, of which the "Ukrainian issue" was central since the second half of the 15th century. The studies of the conflicts and forces in Eastern Europe must have the same prominence as the military history of Western Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and South-Eastern Asia. Historians must research warfare in Eastern Europe, tracking the numerous wars there in detail. More of, historians must explain the specific East-European warfare phenomenons, such as the intrinsic trend to the hegemony over the subcontinent by military power and the disconnection of the military leverage of the international policy from the fundamental economic and social determinants. Both properties must be studied in the past, and the knowledge used to now-a-day conflict resolution.
Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800
Journal of Military History, 2013
Parrott advocates changing the current nomenclature from "absolute state" to "fiscal-military" state. The term captures more accurately the priorities of governments, that is, the need to raise money for military objectives, without the political baggage and implied notions of state centralization and modernity. Parrott follows here John Brewer's analysis of eighteenth-century English public finance.