UCL has trial access to Russian Military Intelligence on Asia: Archive series, 1651-1917, from Brill, until 10th March 2016.
Russian Military Intelligence on Asia: Archive series, 1651-1917 covers a period of rapid Russian expansion in Asia. While its western borders were largely fixed in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, the Romanov autocracy still found many outlets for its imperial energies in the East. Imperial Russia’s Asian march coincided with a revolution in intelligence. Gathering and analyzing such intelligence also became much more comprehensive, almost encyclopedic. It entailed not only the armed forces and the terrain of all potential adversaries, but also political, economic, ethnographic, and much other data.The collection contains, amongst other information: political reports, diaries, and summaries produced in the diplomatic posts, reports of military attachés, regular correspondence with the Russian general staff, many maps and drawings.
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