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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688601003321

Autore

Kuromiya Hiroaki

Titolo

The Eurasian Triangle : Russia, The Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945 / / Hiroaki Kuromiya and Georges Mamoulia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Disciplina

327.47052

Soggetti

Military campaigns

International relations

Eastern question

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Even the best books on international history are ignorant of the secret war against the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union waged jointly by the Caucasian peoples and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. This book explores and exposes previously unknown passages in Eurasian international history. Although the secret war ultimately failed in liberating the Caucasian peoples, the lessons of this Eurasian collaboration were not lost on the United States, which after World War II confronted the Soviet Union just as Japan had earlier. Washington copied the strategy of its former enemy and developed it further. The Eurasian triangle of Russia, the Caucasus, and Japan is a forgotten history of cardinal importance that, stretching from the Russo-Japanese War to World War II, influenced Western Cold War strategies. This book is also the story of a friendship rare in international politics between two unlikely partners unspoiled by political vicissitudes.