Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea

This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies's study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire for mastery of Ukraine and the fertile steppes above the Black Sea, a region of great strategic and economic importance ? arguably the pivot of Eurasia at the time. The long campaign for it took a great toll upon Russia's population, economy and institutions, and repeatedly frustrated or redefined Russian military and diplomatic projects in the West. The struggle was every bit as important as Russia's wars in northern and central Europe for driving the Russian state-building process, forcing military reform and shaping Russia's visions of Empire.

Brian L. Davies is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of archival sources	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Frontispiece Map I	p. xii
Frontispiece Map II	p. xiv
Colonization, war, and slaveraiding on the Black Sea steppe in the sixteenth century	p. 1
Early Polish-Lithuanian and Muscovite expansion towards the Black Sea	p. 1
The Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire	p. 6
Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman-Tatar alliance	p. 9
Muscovy and the Ottoman-Tatar alliance	p. 11
Crimean Tatar invasions	p. 17
Crimean Tatar slaveraiding	p. 23
The Nogais and Kalmyks	p. 27
The formation of the cossack Hosts	p. 29
Poland-Lithuania's southern frontier defense system	p. 33
Southern frontier security: the Muscovite approach	p. 39
Muscovy's southern borderland defense strategy, 1500-1635	p. 41
The Bank Array	p. 42
The Abatis Line	p. 44
Command-and-control	p. 47
Mobilizations and logistics	p. 49
Tactics	p. 52
Combined operations	p. 56
Town garrisons	p. 59
Reconnaissance, sorties, and sieges	p. 61
The changing social profile of military colonization	p. 64
Borderland defenses after the Troubles	p. 66
Military reform for the Smolensk campaign	p. 70
The Smolensk War and its impact on southern Muscovy	p. 73
The Belgorod Line	p. 78
New danger from the Khanate	p. 78
Refortifying the Abatis Line	p. 79
New methods of military colonization	p. 81
The odnodvortsy	p. 85
The Azov crisis and the founding of the Belgorod Line	p. 88
The first Don expeditions by Muscovite forces	p. 95
Cossack unrest in Commonwealth Ukraine	p. 97
Impact on Muscovy	p. 100
Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi's revolt	p. 103
The decision to intervene	p. 106
The consequences of the Pereiaslav Agreement	p. 111
The Ukrainian quagmire	p. 115
The Thirteen Years' War: the first phase, 1654-1657	p. 115
The revolt of Hetman Vyhovs'kyi, 1657-1659	p. 125
Expanding the foreign formations	p. 132
From Chudnovo to Glukhov, 1659-1664	p. 142
Stalemate	p. 148
The Andrusovo Armistice and the new Ottoman threat	p. 150
The Chyhyryn campaigns and the wars of the Holy League	p. 155
Ottoman military intervention in Ukraine, 1669-1676	p. 155
The First Russo-Turkish War, 1676-1681	p. 159
Improving logistics and command-and-control	p. 172
Muscovy in the Holy League	p. 175
The Azov campaigns of Peter I	p. 183
The balance of power at century's end	p. 188
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	p. 188
The Crimean Khanate	p. 190
Ottoman power on the northern Black Sea coast	p. 193
The cossack polities	p. 198
Muscovy	p. 201
Notes	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 249
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