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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Alexandre Sumpf
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Université de Strasbourg
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With the First World War came a militarisation of society as well as the politicisation of war. While the conflict was on everybody’s minds and everybody’s lips, dictating its own pace and organisation of the national effort, its meaning was subject to debate within all sectors of Russian society. The Romanov dynasty and the military command used men who were fit for combat in order to achieve their imperialist aims. In return, these combatants, their families, and all the medical, economic, and social activists used the fact of being at war to force the state to acknowledge its social debt and force the autocracy to admit to the necessity of change. Now the Great War constituted a frontal assault on the body of the nation. While on the Russian scale of things, losses remained at acceptable levels in absolute numbers, they were striking down a specific segment of the population: the future pillars of the economy and pivotal figures for local communities. Among them stood out a group of men who, although they had not fallen on the battlefield, nor died or disappeared, gave rise to a singular, intimate grief.

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The Broken Years
Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921
, pp. 268 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conclusion
  • Alexandre Sumpf, Université de Strasbourg
  • Book: The Broken Years
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047296.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Alexandre Sumpf, Université de Strasbourg
  • Book: The Broken Years
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047296.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Alexandre Sumpf, Université de Strasbourg
  • Book: The Broken Years
  • Online publication: 10 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047296.008
Available formats
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