Role of military courts in discipline strengthening in the Russian army (XVIII early XX centuries)

The article reveals the role and place of military courts in the system of discipline strengthening in the Russian army in late XIX early XX centuries. Complex analysis of the problem under consideration based on the archival documents will help to understand the forms and methods of the activity devoted to the strengthening of law and order and military discipline, the main trends of this process, to draw the moral from historical experience of governmental and military bodies activity on self-discipline and order in the corps under great reforms in the field of military formation. The author also tries to find out whether the work on army discipline was systematized, logic and adequate to the level of public relation development in Russia.