Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 1894-1945

ISBN-13: 9781032066769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 542 str.

Hiroaki Kuromiya

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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)

O autorze

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).