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Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945 book cover

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Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945

By Hiroaki Kuromiya Copyright 2023
542 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

542 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggression... Read more

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)

Biography

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 Między Warszawą a Tokio: Polsko-japońska współpraca wywiadowcza 1904–1944 (2009, with Andrzej Pepłoński) and The Eurasian Triangle: Russia, The Caucasus, and Japan, 1904–1945 (2016, with Georges Mamoulia).

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