Conflict, Corruption and Class in Russian-Occupied Wallachia, 1828-1836 - Enduring the Benevolent Army

This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russia’s military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and realities that are fundamental to the idea of military occupation, namely the armed forces, their deployment, and their interaction with the local population and authorities. At the same time, this book is not a work of purely military history, but also one of social history. It explores how military occupation influenced the everyday life of the people of Wallachia, how the experience of different social groups varied, how victims addressed their troubles before authorities, and how the latter reacted.