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

"The author describes in detail the taking of Kery and Berdyansk by an Allied expeditionary force in May 1855. In doing so...shows the consequences of arson and looting by the Allies for the civilian population." -- Winfried Baumgart, Franz Steiner Verlag "Mara Kozelsky has written a work that will change how scholars periodize modern European war and understand the transitional pivot that the Russian Empire experienced in its midnineteenth-century Victorian era." -- Frank Wcislo, Vanderbilt University, The Journal of Modern History "Kozelsky's account of the traumatic and transformative impact of the Crimean War will attract historians of imperial Russia as well as all those interested in thesubject of war and society in the modern period." -- Victor Taki, Concordia University of Edmonton, American Historical Review "Drawing upon a wide array of sources, including letters, reports, and documents culled from Ukrainian, Crimean, and Russian archives, Mara Kozelsky offers a tremendously well-researched and compelling account of the Crimean War from the perspective of the Crimean peninsula's inhabitants. Those interested in a traditional military history will appreciate the treatment of the major battles of the conflict." -- Jenifer Parks, Rocky Mountain College, H-Net Reviews "This detailed and deeply researched study of the Crimean War's transformative impact will primarily interest specialists of nineteenth-century Russian military history. Scholars of the social and cultural effects of modern warfare, however, will find of much of interest and value in a timely examination of the destructiveness of industrialized warfare before the First World War, centered on a region that remains highly contested." -- Robert Dale, Newcastle University, The Journal of Military History "Mara Kozelsky's book comes as a welcome reminder that Crimea was also the scene of a major conflict in the nineteenth century. Her book is a masterful and detailed account of one of the most significant European conflicts after the Napoleonic period ... this timely, erudite, and highly readable book deserves a place on the bookshelves of scholars both of Russia's past and present." -- Richard Arnold, The Russian Review

Selling point: First English-language book to examine the toll of the Crimean War on subjects of the Russian Empire Selling point: First book to consider the impact of the Crimean War on animals and the environment Selling point: Explores the aftermath of war, including failed reconstruction efforts and the mass exodus of Crimean Tatars Selling point: Shows how violence of war transformed state and society across the empire and provides crucial context for understanding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine Selling point: Draws upon previously unexplored archival sources such as secret police files, testimonies, official correspondence, and Tatar petitions

Mara Kozelsky is Professor of History at the University of South Alabama. Her research examines the religious conflict and identities of Crimea, social and cultural aspects of the Eastern Question, and the role of religion in the Russia-Ukraine crisis. She is the author of Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond (2009).

Selling point: First English-language book to examine the toll of the Crimean War on subjects of the Russian Empire Selling point: First book to consider the impact of the Crimean War on animals and the environment Selling point: Explores the aftermath of war, including failed reconstruction efforts and the mass exodus of Crimean Tatars Selling point: Shows how violence of war transformed state and society across the empire and provides crucial context for understanding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine Selling point: Draws upon previously unexplored archival sources such as secret police files, testimonies, official correspondence, and Tatar petitions