This is a book in the CUP Series "Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare", General Editor Jay Winter of Yale University. The book is No. 45 in the series.
Stockdale tends to upset conventional notions of the Russian experience in the Great War. The book is important, as - if we are to follow Stockdale's path - there has been a lack of comprehension in the West of what happened on the Home Front in Imperial Russia during the war.