Cover; Crimea in War and Transformation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Mobilizing the Home Front; 2. Crimea under Attack; 3. Tatars and Cossacks; 4. Civilians in the Line of Fire; 5. The Feeding Ground; 6. People's War, or War against the People?; 7. The Kerch Strait and the Azov Sea; 8. Between War and Peace; 9. Reconstruction; 10. Transformation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
Crimea in War and Transformation is the first exploration of the civilian experience during the Crimean War to appear in English. Beginning with Russian mobilization in 1852 and lasting through demobilization in 1857, the conflict devastated the peoples and landscapes of Crimea as well as the volatile southern borderlands of the Russian Empire, leading to the largest war recovery program yet undertaken by the Russian government