This book examines the ability of the tsarist government and Russian
industrialists to respond to the multiple challenges of war, revolution,
political reform, international diplomacy and rearmament in the early
twentieth century. Using Russian archive materials, Peter Gatrell
analyzes the process and outcome of decision-making by government and
business in the key sphere of defense, and makes an important
contribution to the literature on the capacity of the old regime to fend
off challenges to its authority at home and its prestige abroad.