На пути к краху. Русско-японская война 1904-1905 гг.: военно-политическая история

The leaders of the Russian Empire needed "a small victorious war" to strengthen the authority of the shaky state power. It should have been the victory over the "wild Asians," but Japan turned out to be a strong militarily developed country and the Russian-Japanese war became the first loss for Russian Empire. O. Airapetov, a specialist in foreign and military policy of Russia, analyzes the specific reasons for the collapse of the Russian state. (0.555 kg.)