David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (NHC Fellow, 2002–03)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2002–03

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, during five months at the Center, completed two of seven chapters for his book, Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Catherine the Great to the Emigration. He also wrote a chapter on "Tsarist Military Intelligence and the Younghusband Expedition of 1904" for Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society, ed. Jennifer Siegel and Peter Jackson (Greenwood Press, forthcoming, 2003); an article, entitled "Do the Archives Change the Story? Reexamining the Origins of the Russo-Japanese War" for Russia, East Asia and Japan at the Dawn of the 20th Century: The Russo-Japanese War Reexamined, ed. Teruyuki Hara (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, forthcoming, 2003); entries on "A. I. Kuropatkin" and "Military Intelligence" for the Encyclopedia of Russian History (Macmillan, forthcoming, 2004); and a review of Robert Geraci, Window on the East, for the Journal of Modern History.