All the Tsar's Men : Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914

by Steinberg, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780801895456
• ISBN10: 0801895456
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-18
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

All the Tsar's Men examines how institutional reforms designed to prepare the Imperial Russian Army for the modern battlefield failed to prevent devastating defeats in both the 1905 Russo-Japanese War and World War I. John W. Steinberg argues that the General Staff officers who devised new educational and doctrinal reforms had the experience, dedication, and leadership skills to defend the empire in the new age of warfare but were continually impeded by institutionalized inefficiency and rigid control from their superiors. These officers, he explains, were operating within a command structure unwilling to grant them the autonomy necessary to effect significant reform, which proved disastrous for the army and -- ultimately -- the empire.

Author Biography

John W. Steinberg is an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He has contributed to two major edited works on this period, Reforming the Tsar's Army and The Russo-Japanese War: World War Zero. He was a Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1996.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Note on Dates and Transliterations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Military Professionals and Professionalism in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century	p. 9
The Education of the Russian General Staff, 1898-1904	p. 37
The Training of the Imperial Russian Army, 1898-1904	p. 76
The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905	p. 110
Reform Plans and the Politics of Reforming the Imperial Army, 1905-1914	p. 150
The Drive toward a Unified Military Doctrine	p. 192
Maneuvers, War Games, and Staff Rides, 1905-1914	p. 232
Conclusion	p. 270
Appendix: Russian General Staff Officers in 1914-A Prosopographic Study	p. 280
A Note on Sources	p. 299
Notes	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 371
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