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THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE HISTORY OF WARFARE General Editor kelly devries Loyola College Founding Editors theresa vann paul chevedden VOLUME 29 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE World War Zero EDITED BY JOHN W. STEINBERG BRUCE W. MENNING DAVID SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAN DER OYE DAVID WOLFF SHINJI YOKOTE BRILL LEIDEN BOSTON • 2005 On the cover: Ernest Prater, “Japan at Russia’s Throat.” Gouache. (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, lent by Gregory and Patricia Kruglak.) Brill Academic Publishers has done its best to establish rights to use of the materials printed herein. Should any other party feel that its rights have been infringed we would be glad to take up contact with them. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Russo-Japanese war in global perspective : World War Zero / edited by John W. Steinberg … [et al.]. p. cm. — (History of warfare, ISSN 1385-7827 ; v. 29) Includes index. ISBN 90-04-14284-3 (alk. paper) 1. Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. I. Title: World War Zero. II. Steinberg, John W. III. Series. DS517.R933 2005 952.03’1—dc22 2004062918 ISSN 1385–7827 ISBN 90 04 14284 3 © Copyright 2005 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................... ix List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xi List of Maps ................................................................................ xv Conventions ................................................................................ xvii Introduction ................................................................................ xix 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 ............................................ 3 Michael Auslin Chapter Two The Immediate Origins of the War .............. 23 David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Chapter Three Stretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900–1903 .............................................................. 45 Ian Nish Chapter Four The Bezobrazovtsy .......................................... 65 Igor V. Lukoianov Chapter Five Crimea Redux? On the Origins of the War .......................................................................................... 87 David Goldfrank PART II WAR ON LAND AND SEA Chapter Six The Operational Overview ................................ 105 John W. Steinberg Chapter Seven Neither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the War .................................................................................. 129 Bruce W. Menning vi contents Chapter Eight The Russian Army’s Fatal Flaws .................. 157 Oleg R. Airapetov Chapter Nine Human Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port Arthur .............................................................. 179 Y. Tak Matsusaka Chapter Ten The Russian Far Eastern Squadron’s Operational Plans .................................................................. 203 Nicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven Chapter Eleven The Russian Navy at War .......................... 229 Pertti Luntinen and Bruce W. Menning Chapter Twelve Japanese Subversion in the Russian Empire .................................................................................... 261 Antti Kujala Chapter Thirteen Russian Military Intelligence .................... 281 Evgenii Yu. Sergeev Chapter Fourteen Intelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese Spies .............................................. 305 David Wolff PART III THE HOME FRONT Chapter Fifteen The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto .......................... 333 John Bushnell Chapter Sixteen The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia ............................................................................ 349 Paul Bushkovitch Chapter Seventeen Love Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of Russia ............................................................ 365 Naoko Shimazu Chapter Eighteen Battling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock Art .......................................... 385 James Ulak Chapter Nineteen Russian Representations of the Japanese Enemy ...................................................................................... 395 Richard Stites contents vii Chapter Twenty Images of the Foe in the Russian Satirical Press .......................................................................... 411 Tatiana Filippova Chapter Twenty-One The War in the Russian Literary Imagination ............................................................................ 425 Barry Scherr PART IV THE IMPACT Chapter Twenty-Two Russian War Financing ...................... 449 Boris Ananich Chapter Twenty-Three Japan’s Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the War ............................................................ 465 Ed Miller Chapter Twenty-Four The Kittery Peace .............................. 485 Norman Saul Chapter Twenty-Five The War in Russian Historical Memory .................................................................................. 509 Dmitrii Oleinikov Chapter Twenty-Six Commemorating the War in Post-Versailles Japan .............................................................. 523 Frederick Dickinson Chapter Twenty-Seven Tsushima’s Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign Policy .................................................... 545 David McDonald Chapter Twenty-Eight Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan ...................................................................... 565 Charles Schencking Chapter Twenty-Nine “That Vital Spark”: Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military Perspective .......................... 591 Don Wright Chapter Thirty “Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!” The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India ........................................................................................ 609 Steven Marks viii contents Chapter Thirty-One Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan’s Victory ...................................... 629 Paul A. Rodell Notes on Contributors ................................................................ 655 Index ............................................................................................ 661 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project was born in May 1995, when Bruce Menning first sug- gested the undertaking to John Steinberg as they were examining the Russian military history collection at the Finnish National Defense Library. Within a short period, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and David Wolff joined the cause to assist in brainstorming, administering, and editing the collection of essays that ensued. Three members of the editorial board (Schimmelpenninck, Steinberg, and Wolff) visited Japan in February 2003, where they conferred with academics, diplomats, and representatives from several foundations, including the Japan Foundation and the Yomiuri Shimbun Research Institute. These conversations brought commitments of Japanese participation in the collaborative research effort and added support for the overall project. Professor Emeritus Haruki Wada of Tokyo University, Professor Shinji Yokote of Keio University, (who has since joined the editorial board), Professor Teruyuki Hara of the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, and Professor Tatsuo Nakami of Tokyo Foreign Studies University offered to participate in a pro- ject secretariat based in Japan. Since its inception nearly a decade ago, this venture has relied on the goodwill and generosity of many individuals and institutions. Among the former, the editorial board is particularly grateful to the following: Paul Bushkovitch, John Bushnell, Mikiko Fujiwara, Teruyuki Hara, Makoto Kito, Antti Kujala, Leena Kanninen, Jodi Koehn, Kyoji Komachi, Dominic Lieven, Irina Lukka, Blair Ruble, Victoria Steinberg, Richard Stites, Timo Vihavainen, Wendy Walker, and Mikko Ylikangas. The editors would also like to express their pro- found gratitude to the following institutions, all of which provided valuable assistance: The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Brock University, Georgia Southern University, the Guest House of Helsinki University, the Finnish National Defense College Library, the Japan Foundation, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the London School of Economics, the Renvall Institute of Helsinki University, Rodina, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University,

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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 gl
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