All the Tsar's Men

With its deft handling of the army’s campaigns in the Far East, as well as its larger focus on the General Staff, All the Tsar’s Men offers a highly original and well-substantiated answer to a series of questions too often overlooked in the English-language historiography of the Russian empire. Steinberg has made use of an impressive array of primary sources and succeeds admirably in illustrating the tension that eventually undermined the entire imperial order.

This is the first book in any language to move beyond anecdote-based assertions about the social and service composition of the General Staff Corps. Steinberg makes a significant contribution to the literature on late Imperial Russian military history, adding considerably to our understanding of the evolution of the General Staff during its last decades.

Steinberg's book is a fine piece of work and it makes a significant contribution to the field.

All the Tsar's Men... should be required reading for anyone interested in Imperial Russian military history.

Steinberg's book is extremely useful... This book rewards reading.

An important read for serious students of Russian military history, World War I, and the military staff.

All the Tsar's Men will be useful to anyone seeking more detail on the ways that Russian commanders were trained in the last days of the Romanov empire.

A welcome addition to the study of the Russian Imperial Army in the twilight of the Romanov epoch.

Steinberg's book is informative and detailed, makes good use of archival material and contemporary publications, and provides the best analysis available in English of the education and training of this important group of officers before the war.

This is a well thought out, well structured and well written work, one which does credit both to the author and publisher and is well worth reading.