''The Journal of Slavic Military Studies'' is a quarterly

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that publishes articles relating to military affairs of Central and Eastern European

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, including their history and

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, as well as

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s. It is published by

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and the

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is Martijn Lak. It was established in 1988 by

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as ''The Journal of Soviet Military Studies'', obtaining its current title in 1993.

was editor-in-chief from the founding of the journal until the end of 2017, with Alexander Hill briefly editing the journal from January 2018-March 2019. As of 2014, it is ranked in the first quartile of the

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of scholarly journals in the history category.

Abstracting and indexing

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