This project centers around three questions. Using the example of Russia it first asks how soldiers were conditioned to cope with their fear, second how they did deal with their fear, and third how they were dealt with when they could not cope and broke down with fear-induced symptoms. For this purpose it uses a wide range of sources—from officer handbooks for the training of recruits to military psychiatry and memoirs. While it looks back to 1812 and forward to the Chechen Wars, its focus is on the early twentieth century, esp. the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars.
