Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Note on Names and Dates Notes on Contributors Foreword Introduction Firepower or Willpower?: The Unlearned Military Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War; S.P.MacKenzie Traditions of War Literature in Medieval Japan: A Study of the Heike Monogatari ; R.Pandey Japanese Literary Responses to the Russo-Japanese War; T.Aoyama Paradigms of War in Russian Literature from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century; D.Wells The Russo-Japanese War in Russian Literature; D.Wells Easts and Wests Befuddled: Russian Intellegentsia Responses to the Russo-Japanese War; A.Jones The Russo-Japanese War and Japan: Politics, Nationalism and Historical Memory; S.Wilson Conclusion Bibliography Index

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David Wells has worked in libraries in Melbourne and was a Research Fellow in the School of Politics at La Trobe University. He is the author of two books on the poetry of Anna Akhmatova and has written numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature. Sandra Wilson was a lecturer in the School of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne (1988-96), and is the author of a number of articles on Japan.

About the Author

DAVID WELLS is a librarian at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. He has worked in libraries in Melbourne and was a Research Fellow in the School of Politics at La Trobe University. He is the author of two books on the poetry of Anna Akhmatova and has written numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature. SANDRA WILSON is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Japanese Studies Programme at Murdoch University. She was a lecturer in the School of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne (1988-96). Dr Wilson is the author of a number of articles on Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. She is currently working on a book on Japanese nationalism.

Reviews

"[the book is] quite relevant to our contemporary issues despite its concern with the war of almost a century ago." - Journal of Asian Studies "This book now fills the gap by gathering specialists of both Russia and Japan...succeeds in showing that the Russo-Japanese war left a deep impact on the historical memory of Russians and Japanese alike." - Russian Review