Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Conventions -- Introduction (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 (Michael Auslin) -- Chapter Two The Immediate Origins of the War (David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye) -- Chapter Three Stretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900-1903 (Ian Nish) -- Chapter Four The Bezobrazovtsy (Igor V. Lukoianov) -- Chapter Five Crimea Redux? On the Origins of the War (David Goldfrank) -- PART II - WAR ON LAND AND SEA -- Chapter Six The Operational Overview (John W. Steinberg) -- Chapter Seven Neither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the War (Bruce W. Menning) -- Chapter Eight The Russian Army's Fatal Flaws (Oleg R. Airapetov) -- Chapter Nine Human Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port Arthur (Y. Tak Matsusaka) -- Chapter Ten The Russian Far Eastern Squadron's Operational Plans (Nicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven) -- Chapter Eleven The Russian Navy at War (Pertti Luntinen and Bruce W. Menning) -- Chapter Twelve Japanese Subversion in the Russian Empire (Antti Kujala) -- Chapter Thirteen Russian Military Intelligence (Evgenii Yu. Sergeev) -- Chapter Fourteen Intelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese Spies (David Wolff) -- PART III - THE HOME FRONT -- Chapter Fifteen The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto (John Bushnell) -- Chapter Sixteen The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia (Paul Bushkovitch) -- Chapter Seventeen Love Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of Russia (Naoko Shimazu) -- Chapter Eighteen Battling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock Art (James Ulak).

Chapter Nineteen Russian Representations of the Japanese Enemy (Richard Stites) -- Chapter Twenty Images of the Foe in the Russian Satirical Press (Tatiana Filippova) -- Chapter Twenty-One The War in the Russian Literary Imagination (Barry Scherr) -- PART IV - THE IMPACT -- Chapter Twenty-Two Russian War Financing (Boris Ananich) -- Chapter Twenty-Three Japan's Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the War (Ed Miller) -- Chapter Twenty-Four The Kittery Peace (Norman Saul) -- Chapter Twenty-Five The War in Russian Historical Memory (Dmitrii Oleinikov) -- Chapter Twenty-Six Commemorating the War in Post-Versailles Japan (Frederick Dickinson) -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Tsushima's Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign Policy (David McDonald) -- Chapter Twenty-Eight Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan (Charles Schencking) -- Chapter Twenty-Nine "That Vital Spark": Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military Perspective (Don Wright) -- Chapter Thirty "Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!" The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India (Steven Marks) -- Chapter Thirty-One Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan's Victory (Paul A. Rodell) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.