Military history of Russia

The military history of the modern-day Russian Federation has antecedents involving the Rus' (who built Kyiv), the Mongol invasion of the early 13th century, Russia's numerous wars against Turkey, against Poland, Lithuania and Sweden, the Seven Years' War, France (especially the Napoleonic Wars), and the Crimean War of 1853–1856. The 20th century saw two World Wars and the Cold War. The military history of the Russian Federation itself began in 1991.

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History of Russia

Prehistory  • Antiquity  • Early Slavs

Rus' people pre–9th century
Rus' Khaganate c. 830–899
Kievan Rus' 882–1240
Feudal Rus' (1097–1547)

Novgorod Republic • Vladimir-Suzdal Mongol conquest • Grand Duchy of Moscow

Tsardom of Russia 1547–1721
Russian Empire 1721–1917
Russian Revolution (1917–1923)

February Revolution • Provisional Government
Russian Republic • October Revolution • Civil War
(Red Army • White Guard • separatists • others)

Soviet Union 1922–1991
Russian Federation 1991–present

Timeline

860–1721 • 1721–1796 • 1796–1855
1855–1892 • 1892–1917 • 1917–1927
1927–1953 • 1953–1964 • 1964–1982
1982–1991 • 1991–present
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Period surveys include:

See also

Further reading
  • Davies, Brian L. "The Development of Russian Military Power 1453–1815." in Jeremy Black, ed., European Warfare 1453–1815 (Macmillan Education UK, 1999) pp. 145-179.
  • De Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (2002).r, William C. Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 (1998) excerpts
  • Hartley, Janet M. Russia, 1762-1825: military power, the state, and the people (ABC-CLIO, 2008).
  • Hughes, Lindsey (2000). Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08266-1. pp 63-91.
  • Kagan, Frederick, and Robin Higham, eds. The Military History of Tsarist Russia (2008) excerpts
  • Keep, John. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462–1874 (Oxford UP, 1985).
  • Menning, Bruce W. "Russian military innovation in the second half of the eighteenth Century." War & Society (1984) 2#1 pp. 23-41. online
  • Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (7th ed. 2004) 800 pages.
  • Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (2008) excerpt and text search
  • Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David, and Bruce Menning, eds. Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2004). scholarly essays
  • Stone, David. A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (2006) excerpts
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