Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective

John W. Steinberg is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. His book on the education, training, and performance of the Imperial Russian General Staff, 1898-1914 is forthcoming.Bruce W. Menning is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A specialist in modern Russian military history, he is the author of Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914.David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. He, together with Bruce Menning, edited Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution.David Wolff is Senior Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, specializing in Northeast Asian political and diplomatic history. He has held appointments at Princeton and Berkeley. He is the author of To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.Yokote Shinji is Professor of Russian History and Politics at Keio University. He is most recently author of Higashi Ajia no Roshia (Russia in East Asia).

• PrefaceList of Maps and IllustrationsConventionsIntroduction John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji YokotePart IIn the Shadow of WarChapter OneJapanese Strategy, Geopolitics and the Origins of the War, 1792-1895Michael AuslinChapter TwoThe Immediate Origins of the WarDavid Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Chapter ThreeStretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900-1903Ian Nish Chapter FourThe BezobrazovtsyIgor Lukoianov Chapter FiveCrimea Redux? On the Origins of the WarDavid GoldfrankPart IIWar on Land and SeaChapter SixThe Operational OverviewJohn W. Steinberg Chapter SevenNeither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the WarBruce W. Menning Chapter EightThe Russian Army’s Fatal FlawsOleg Airapetov Chapter NineHuman Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port ArthurY. Tak MatsusakaChapter TenThe Russian Far Eastern Squadron’s Operational PlansNicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven Chapter ElevenThe Russian Navy at WarPertti Luntinen Chapter TwelveJapanese Subversion in the Russian EmpireAntti KujalaChapter ThirteenRussian Military IntelligenceEvgenii SergeevChapter FourteenIntelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese SpiesDavid Wolff IllustrationsPart IIIThe Home FrontChapter FifteenThe Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October ManifestoJohn Bushnell Chapter SixteenThe Far East in the Eyes of the Russian IntelligentsiaPaul Bushkovitch Chapter SeventeenLove Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of RussiaNaoko ShimazuChapter EighteenBattling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock ArtJames Ulak Chapter NineteenRussian Representations of the Japanese EnemyRichard StitesChapter TwentyImages of the Foe in the Russian Satirical PressTatiana Filippova Chapter Twenty-OneThe War in the Russian Literary ImaginationBarry Scherr Part IVThe ImpactChapter Twenty-TwoRussian War FinancingBoris AnanichChapter Twenty-ThreeJapan’s Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the WarEd MillerChapter Twenty-FourThe Kittery PeaceNorman SaulChapter Twenty-FiveThe War in Russian Historical MemoryDmitrii OleinikovChapter Twenty-SixCommemorating the War in Post-Versailles JapanFrederick Dickinson Chapter Twenty-SevenTsushima’s Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign PolicyDavid McDonald Chapter Twenty-EightInterservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War JapanCharles SchenckingChapter Twenty-Nine “That Vital Spark:” Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military PerspectiveDon Wright Chapter Thirty“Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!” The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and IndiaSteven Marks Chapter Thirty-OneInspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan’s VictoryPaul Rodell MapsNotes on ContributorsIndex