Historiographers argue that the lack of professionalism among General Staff officers explains their inability to defend the throne against external and internal enemies. Steinberg reveals in a dense and well-researched book, how one of the most powerful armies in the world, one in which the cream of social elite served the Tsar and God, failed to learn the lessons of the Russo-Japanese War and to prepare the nation to a new type of conflict – total war. After a decade of intensive research, John W. The destruction of a mighty empire, a 300-year-old dynasty and a unique autocratic regime, were intertwined with the failure of the Russian Army in all fields of warfare. 1Quite extraordinary in European History were the Russian defeats of 19 that brought about three revolutions.
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