1904. With maps. Beveridge, U.S. Senator from Indiana and historian, published The Russian Advance after traveling the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This trip was a sobering personal revelation about Russian/Chinese racial harmony and thus a direct challenge to the famous imperialist speeches he had delivered in the previous decade. Partial Contents: Russia on the Pacific; The Overlords of the Czar's Advancing Power in the Far East; Manchurian Railway Results and Methods; The Russian Advance Paralleled by the German Advance; Russian Capital and Labor; The Independent Peasant Artisan; Holy Russia, the Orthodox Nation; Things Casually Observed; and Three Russians of World Fame.