Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War

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.

Russo-Japanese War

Clockwise from top: Russian cruiser Pallada under fire at Port Arthur, Russian cavalry at Mukden, Russian cruiser Varyag and gunboat Korietz at Chemulpo Bay, Japanese dead at Port Arthur, Japanese infantry crossing the Yalu River
Date8 February 1904  – 5 September 1905
(1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks)
Location
Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korean Peninsula, Sea of Japan
Result

Japanese victory

Territorial
changes		 Russia cedes the Guandong Leased Territory and South Sakhalin to Japan
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength

1,365,000 (total)[1]

  • 700,000 (peak)

1,200,000 (total)[1]

  • 650,000 (peak)
Casualties and losses
  • 34,000–52,623 killed or died of wounds
  • 9,300–18,830 died of disease
  • 146,032 wounded
  • 74,369 captured
  • 8 battleships sunk

Total: 43,300–120,000[2][3]
  • 47,152–47,400 killed
  • 11,424–11,500 died of wounds
  • 21,802–27,200 died of disease
  • 2 battleships sunk

Total: 58,000–86,100[2][3]

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. [lower-alpha 1]
  • 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

Works focused on Japan

International focused works

Historiography

Primary Sources

A limited number of English language primary sources referred to in the above works.

Reference works

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

References

Notes
  1. Originally published in German as Die Japanischen Kreigschiffe 1869–1945 in 1970, translated into English by David Brown and Antony Preston. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
  2. An account from a seaman aboard the Russian battleship Oryol, which was captured at Tsushima.

Citations
  1. Mitchell, T.J.; Smith, G.M. (1931). Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War. London: HMSO. p. 6. OCLC 14739880.
  2. Dumas, S.; Vedel-Petersen, K.O. (1923). Losses of Life Caused By War. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 57–9.
  3. Matthew White. "Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century – Russo-Japanese War". Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century.
  4. Saul, Norman E. (2008). "Reviewed work: The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War, Rotem Kowner". The Russian Review. 67 (1): 137–138. JSTOR 20620700.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Hyer, Paul (1965). "Reviewed work: The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War, John Albert White". The Historian. 28 (1): 164–165. JSTOR 24438781.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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