The Russo-Japanese War

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ID20041766
AuthorsDavid Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye (corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages183-201
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMilitary History of Tsarist Russia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-0-230-10822-6_10
OpenAlexW635535139
ISBN9780230108226
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

There are some intriguing parallels between the Russo-Japanese War and late Imperial Russia's two other great military debacles. Like the Crimean conflict 50 years earlier, the war against Japan of 1904 and 1905 was fought on the empire's periphery, where daunting logistical difficulties hampered the struggle against a modern, well-equipped adversary. And, as in the Crimea, tsarist generals on Manchuria's Liaodong Peninsula, where most of the action took place, conducted a defensive campaign, which included a lengthy and heroic siege of their principal naval garrison in the theater. The similarities between the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War are even more striking: never before had the home front been so intimately linked to the combat itself. As in Ukraine and Belorussia in 1917, the Russian armies in southern Manchuria were defeated not only by a superior enemy, but also by the severe political unrest their continual reverses brought about back in the capital.KeywordsQing DynastyLiaodong PeninsulaGeneral StaffAsian MainlandRussian ArmyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Adversary · Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Geography · Parallels · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Siege · Spanish Civil War · United front · Unrest · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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