Saul Charles Schencking Barry Scherr David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye Evgenii Iurevich Sergeev Naoko Shimazu Yokote Shinji John W. Miller Ian Nish Dmitrii Ivanovich Oleinikov Nicholas Papastratigakis Paul A. 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. This study not only further reveals the weaknesses of Imperial Russia but also exhibits Japan as it entered its fateful 20th century.Ĭontributors: Oleg Rudolfovich Airapetov Boris Vasilevich Ananich Michael Auslin Paul A. 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. 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.
This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context.
