Heroes, Cowards, & Traitors: The Crimean War & its Challenge to Russian Autocracy

Alexis Peri

Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Russia's defeat in the Crimean War cast new doubt upon the fundamental political traditions, social structures, national myths of the Nikolaevan era. It precipitated wide-ranging reforms, including military reforms, which were predicated on a shift in mentality. This essay examines the new notions of heroism that circulated among Russia's emerging public sphere during and after the war. It analyzes the types of heroes that were celebrated as reflections of critical changes in attitude and mindset, which prefigured the liberalizing era of Alexander II.

Keywords: Crimean; Czarist; Russia; Russian Empire; Nikolai; 1856; Berkeley; Danube; Caucasus; Baltic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-08-01
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