Full Description
This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War One, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study not only further reveals the weaknesses of Imperial Russia but also exhibits Japan as it entered its fateful 20th century.
Contributors: Oleg Rudolfovich Airapetov; Boris Vasilevich Ananich; Michael Auslin; Paul A. Bushkovitch; John Bushnell; Frederick R. Dickinson; Tatiana Aleksandrovna Filippova; David Goldfrank; Antti Kujala; Dominic Lieven; Igor Vladimirovich Lukoianov; Pertti Luntinen; Steven Marks; Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka; David Maclaren Mcdonald; Bruce W. Menning; Edward S. Miller; Ian Nish ; Dmitrii Ivanovich Oleinikov; Nicholas Papastratigakis; Paul A. Rodell; Norman E. Saul; Charles Schencking; Barry Scherr; David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye; Evgenii Iurevich Sergeev; Naoko Shimazu; Yokote Shinji; John W. Steinberg; Richard Stites; James T. Ulak; David Wolff; Don Wright.
Contents
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
Conventions
Introduction
John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote
Part I In the Shadow of War
Chapter One Japanese Strategy, Geopolitics and the Origins of the War, 1792-1895
Michael Auslin
Chapter Two The Immediate Origins of the War
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Chapter Three Stretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900-1903
Ian Nish
Chapter Four The Bezobrazovtsy
Igor Lukoianov
Chapter Five Crimea Redux? On the Origins of the War
David Goldfrank
Part II War on Land and Sea
Chapter Six The Operational Overview
John W. Steinberg
Chapter Seven Neither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the War
Bruce W. Menning
Chapter Eight The Russian Army's Fatal Flaws
Oleg Airapetov
Chapter Nine Human Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port Arthur
Y. Tak Matsusaka
Chapter Ten The Russian Far Eastern Squadron's Operational Plans
Nicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven
Chapter Eleven The Russian Navy at War
Pertti Luntinen
Chapter Twelve Japanese Subversion in the Russian Empire
Antti Kujala
Chapter Thirteen Russian Military Intelligence
Evgenii Sergeev
Chapter Fourteen Intelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese Spies
David Wolff
Illustrations
Part III The Home Front
Chapter Fifteen The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto
John Bushnell
Chapter Sixteen The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia
Paul Bushkovitch
Chapter Seventeen Love Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of Russia
Naoko Shimazu
Chapter Eighteen Battling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock Art
James Ulak
Chapter Nineteen Russian Representations of the Japanese Enemy
Richard Stites
Chapter Twenty Images of the Foe in the Russian Satirical Press
Tatiana Filippova
Chapter Twenty-One The War in the Russian Literary Imagination
Barry Scherr
Part IV The Impact
Chapter Twenty-Two Russian War Financing
Boris Ananich
Chapter Twenty-Three Japan's Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the War
Ed Miller
Chapter Twenty-Four The Kittery Peace
Norman Saul
Chapter Twenty-Five The War in Russian Historical Memory
Dmitrii Oleinikov
Chapter Twenty-Six Commemorating the War in Post-Versailles Japan
Frederick Dickinson
Chapter Twenty-Seven Tsushima's Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign Policy
David McDonald
Chapter Twenty-Eight Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan
Charles Schencking
Chapter Twenty-Nine "That Vital Spark:" Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military Perspective
Don Wright
Chapter Thirty "Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!" The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India
Steven Marks
Chapter Thirty-One Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan's Victory
Paul Rodell
Maps
Notes on Contributors
Index
