Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 18941945

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin's covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.

Table des matières

1. War and Romance (1894-1922) 2. Stalin, Zhang, and Tanaka (1922-1929) 3. Japan's Manchurian Saga (1929-1934) 4. China's Firetrap (1935-1938) 5. Dénouement (1938-1945)

A propos de l'auteur

Hiroaki Kuromiya is a professor of history emeritus, Indiana University, USA. He has authored, among others, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s (1998), Stalin (Profiles in Power) (2005), The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s (2007), Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953 (2012), and Zrozumity Donbas (2015), and coauthored Mi¿dzy Warszaw¿ a Tokio: Polsko-japöska wspó¿praca wywiadowcza 1904-1944 (2009, with Andrzej Pep¿öski) and The Eurasian Triangle: Russia, The Caucasus, and Japan, 1904-1945 (2016, with Georges Mamoulia).

Résumé

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Hiroaki Kuromiya, Kuromiya Hiroaki
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 22.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032066738
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206673-8
• Pages: 532
• Thème: Routledge Open History
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Japan, China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, HISTORY / General, military history, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, c 1890 to c 1899, Invasion, conquest and occupation, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Russia / General