John W. Steinberg is Professor of History Austin Peay State University, USA. He is the author of All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914 (2010) and the co-editor, along with Rex A. Wade, of The Making of Russian History: Society, Culture, and the Politics of Modern Russia (2009). He is also co-series editor, with Tony Heywood and David M. McDonlad, of the international research project 'Russia's Great War & Revolution'.