Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War
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This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the Russo-Japanese War, the period leading up to the war, and the immedidate aftermath. For works on the Russian Revolution, please see Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Book entries may have references to reviews published in English language academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.
Works included are referenced positively in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert, or have significant scholarly journal reviews.
Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter length bibliographies. The External Links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.
A limited number of English translations of significant primary sources are included along with references to larger archival collections.
This bibliography uses APA style citations.
General works[]
- Cohen, A. (2010). Long Ago and Far Away: War Monuments, Public Relations, and the Memory of the Russo-Japanese War in Russia, 1907-14. The Russian Review, 69(3), 388-411.
- Hall, R. C. (2004). "The Next War: The Influence of the Russo-Japanese War on Southeastern Europe and the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913". Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 17(3), pp. 563–577.
- Katō, Y. (2007). What Caused the Russo-Japanese War: Korea or Manchuria?. Social Science Japan Journal, 10(1), pp. 95–103.
- Kowner, R. (2010). The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War. London, UK: Routledge.[4][5]
- Kowner, R. (2007). Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05: Centennial Perspectives. Boston, MA: Global Oriental.[6]
- Lensen, G. (1962). Japan and Tsarist Russia - the Changing Relationships, 1875-1917. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 10(3), neue folge, 337-348.
- Masafumi, A. (2010). The China-Russia-Japan Military Balance in Manchuria, 1906-1918. Modern Asian Studies, 44(6), pp. 1283-1311.
- Matsui, M. (1972). The Russo-Japanese Agreement of 1907: Its Causes and the Progress of Negotiations. Modern Asian Studies, 6(1), pp. 33-48.
- Murray, N. (2013). Chapter 4: The Russo-Japanese War. In The Rocky Road to the Great War: the Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-59797-553-7
- Nish, I. (1985). The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War. London: Longman.
- Steinberg, J. (2008). Was the Russo-Japanese War World War Zero?. The Russian Review, 67(1), pp. 1–7.
- Tomion, J. W. (1974). Strategy and Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War Reconsidered. Newport, RI: Naval War College.[7]
- Van Dijk, K. (2015). The Russo-Japanese War. In Pacific Strife (pp. 417-438). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Walder, D. (1974), The Short Victorious War: The Russo-Japanese Conflict, 1904-5. New York: Harper & Row.[8][9]
Military history[]
- Connaughton, R. M. (2003). The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear — A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–5. London: Cassell.[10]
- Hough, R. A. The Fleet That Had To Die. Ballantine Books. (1960).
- Jentschura, H., Jung, D., & Mickel, P. (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD. [a]
- Lardas, M., & Wright, P. (Illustrator). (2019). Russian Battleships and Cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing.
- Pleshakov, C. V. (2002). The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima. New York, NY: Basic Books.
- Stille, M., & Wright, P. (Illustrator). (2016). The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing.
Works focused on Russia[]
- Esthus, R. (1981). Nicholas II and the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian Review, 40(4), pp. 396–411.
- Menning, B. (2006). Miscalculating One's Enemies: Russian Military Intelligence before the Russo-Japanese War. War in History, 13(2), pp. 141–170.
- Papastratigakis, N. (2011). Russian Imperialism and Naval Power: Military Strategy and the Build-Up to the Russo-Japanese War. London: I. B. Tauris.
- Perabo, B. C. (2017). Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Works focused on Japan[]
- Koda, Y. (2005). The Russo-Japanese War: Primary Causes of Japanese Success. Naval War College Review, 58(2), pp. 10–44.
- Kublin, H. (1950). The Japanese Socialists and the Russo-Japanese War. The Journal of Modern History, 22(4), pp. 322-339.
- Shimazu, N. (2008). Patriotic and Despondent: Japanese Society at War, 1904-5. The Russian Review, 67(1), pp. 34-49.
- Okamoto, S. (1970). The Japanese Oligarchy and the Russo-Japanese War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
International focused works[]
- Crowley, D. (2008). Seeing Japan, Imagining Poland: Polish Art and the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian Review, 67(1), 50-69.
- Dua, R. (1973). United States and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 34, pp. 273-279.
- Long, J. (1974). Franco-Russian Relations during the Russo-Japanese War. The Slavonic and East European Review, 52(127), pp. 213-233.
- May, E. (1957). The Far Eastern Policy of the United States in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War: A Russian View. The American Historical Review, 62(2), pp. 345-351.
- Morris, E. (2002). Chapter 24: The Best Herder of Emperors Since Napoleon. In Theodore Rex, Google Books. New York, NY: Random House.
- Valliant, R. (1974). The Selling of Japan. Japanese Manipulation of Western Opinion, 1900-1905. Monumenta Nipponica, 29(4), 415-438.
- White, J. A. (2016). Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.<>Nish, I. H. (1966). "Reviewed work: The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War, J. A. White". The Slavonic and East European Review. 44 (102): 239–241. JSTOR 4205745.</>[11]
Historiography[]
- Swafford, K. (2015). "In the Thick of It": The (Meta)Discourse of Jack London's Russo-Japanese War Correspondence[permanent dead link]. Pacific Coast Philology, 50(1), 82-102.
- Van der Oye, D. (2008). Rewriting the Russo-Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective. The Russian Review, 67(1), pp. 78–87.
Primary Sources[]
A limited number of English language primary sources referred to in the above works.
- The Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905 - September 5, 1905. Brigham Young University.
- Correspondence Regarding the Negotiations between Japan and Russia (1903–1904), Presented to the Imperial Diet, March 1904. Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Novikov-Priboy, Aleksei. (1936). Tsushima. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.[b]
Historical Fiction[]
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Filmography[]
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Reference works[]
- Kowner, R. (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Lanham, MD. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
Further reading[]
Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to the Russo-Japanese War.
- Connaughton, R. M. (2003). The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear — A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–5. London: Cassell.[12]
See also[]
- Foreign policy of the Russian Empire
- Government of Meiji Japan
- Korea under Japanese rule
- Treaty of Portsmouth
References[]
Notes[]
Citations[]
- ^ a b Mitchell, T. J.; Smith, G. M. (1931). Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 6. OCLC 14739880.
- ^ a b Dumas, S.; Vedel-Petersen, K.O. (1923). Losses of Life Caused By War. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 57–9.
- ^ a b Matthew White. "Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century – Russo-Japanese War". Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century.
- ^ Saul, Norman E. (2008). "Reviewed work: The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War, Rotem Kowner". The Russian Review. 67 (1): 137–138. JSTOR 20620700.
- ^ Wilson, Sandra (2008). "Reviewed work: The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War, Rotem Kowner". Journal of Japanese Studies. 34 (2): 512–516. doi:10.1353/jjs.0.0022. JSTOR 27756602. S2CID 145429798.
- ^ Steinberg, John W. (2009). "Reviewed work: Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05, Rotem Kowner, John W. Chapman, Inaba Chiharu". The Russian Review. 68 (2): 342–344. JSTOR 20621017.
- ^ Hyer, Paul (1965). "Reviewed work: The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War, John Albert White". The Historian. 28 (1): 164–165. JSTOR 24438781.
- ^ Westwood, J. N. (1975). "The Short Victorious War: The Russo-Japanese Conflict, 1904-5. By David Walder. London: Hutchinson, 1973. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 321 pp. $10.00". Slavic Review. 34: 148–149. doi:10.2307/2495889. JSTOR 2495889.
- ^ Lensen, George Alexander; Walder, David (1976). "The Short Victorious War: The Russo-Japanese Conflict, 1904-5". Russian Review. 35: 107. doi:10.2307/127662. JSTOR 127662.
- ^ Nish, Ian (1990). "Reviewed work: The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5, R. M. Connaughton". The Slavonic and East European Review. 68 (2): 355–356. JSTOR 4210315.
- ^ Carson, George Barr (1965). "Reviewed work: The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War, John Albert White". The Journal of Modern History. 37 (3): 405. doi:10.1086/600747. JSTOR 1875460.
- ^ Nish, Ian (1990). "Reviewed work: The War of the Rising Sun and the Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5, R. M. Connaughton". The Slavonic and East European Review. 68 (2): 355–356. JSTOR 4210315.
External links[]
- Google Map with battles of Russo-Japanese War and other important events.
- See more Russo-Japanese War Maps at the Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library
- The Treaty of Portsmouth and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905. Office of the Historian, United States Secretary of State.
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- Japan–Russia military relations
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