Download or read book Japan s Siberian Intervention 1918 1922 written by Paul E. Dunscomb and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new 'world situation' left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the families of servicemen in small garrison towns, the intervention was perceived as a test of how Japan might fit itself into the emerging postwar world order. Both domestically and internationally Japan's actions in Siberia were seen as critical proof of the nation's ability, depending on one's viewpoint, to embrace or to ride out the 'trends of the times,' the seeming triumph of constitutional democracy and Wilsonian internationalism. The course of the Siberian Intervention illuminates the struggle to cement 'responsible' party cabinets at the heart of Japanese decision making, the high water mark of efforts to bring the Japanese military under civilian control, the attempt to fundamentally reshape Japanese continental policy, and the hopes of millions of Japanese that their voices be heard and their desires respected by the nation's leaders. The book attempts a broad examination of domestic politics, foreign policy, and military action by incorporating a wide array of voices through a detailed examination of public comment and discussion in journals and magazines, the major circulation daily newspapers of Tokyo and Osaka as well as those of smaller cities such as Nara, Mito, Oita, and Tsuruga.

Download or read book Japan s Siberian Intervention written by Paul E. Dunscomb and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new world situation left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the families of servicemen in small garrison to wns, the intervention was perceived as a test of how Japan might fit itself into the emerging postwar world order. Both domestically and internationally Japan actions in Siberia were seen as critical proof of the nation's ability, depending on one viewpoint, to embrace or to ride out the trends of the times, the seeming triumph of constitutional democracy and Wilsonian internationalism. The course of the Siberian Intervention illuminates the struggle to cement responsible party cabinets at the heart of Japanese decision making, the high water mark of efforts to bring the Japanese military under civilian control, the attempt to fundamentally reshape Japanese continental policy, and the hopes of millions of Japanese that their voices be heard and their desires respected by the nation's leaders. The book attempts a broad examination of domestic politics, foreign policy, and military action by incorporating a wide array of voices through a detailed examination of public comment and discussion in journals and magazines, the major circulation daily newspapers of Tokyo and Osaka as well as those of smaller cities such as Nara, Mito, Oita, and Tsuruga.

Download or read book The Japanese Thrust Into Siberia 1918 written by James William Morley and published by New York, Columbia U. P. This book was released on 1957 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The People Will Not be Cheated written by Paul Edward Dunscomb and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first narrative of Japanese decision-making regarding the Siberian intervention from 1918 to 1922 either in English or Japanese. It is the first in English to examine domestic criticism of the intervention. Siberia was unique in the prewar period for receiving sustained criticism for its failure to conform to the 'trends of the times, ' euphemisms for Wilsonian internationalism and democratic politics that achieved great popularity after the defeat of Germany at the end of the First World War. The intervention and the 'rice riots' both began in August 1918, helping propel Seiyukai party president Hara Takashi into the prime minister's office at the head of a party Cabinet that September. This began the period of party domination of Japanese politics that lasted until 1932. The intervention was the nadir of army prestige and influence. The Hara cabinet and the Army General Staff battled over the conduct of the intervention, particularly the question of withdrawal after 1919. Stalemate resulted; the intervention dragged on but army plans for creating a buffer state in Siberia were thwarted. The end of the intervention in October 1922, a decision by Prime Minister Kato Tomosaburo, navy admiral and the only non-party premier during the 1920s, foreshadowed the eclipse of political party dominance. The inability of the Seiyukai Cabinet to end the unpopular intervention helped sour many Japanese on the utility of party cabinets and democratic politics to achieve desired ends. Newspaper commentary on the intervention shows deep ambivalence or even hostility to the issue throughout, a marked contrast to their usual strong nationalism and jingoism. Magazines and journals show elite opinion criticizing intervention policy for failing to acknowledge the 'trends of the times.' Despite the popularity of the 'trends of the times' most Japanese did not value internationalism and democracy for their own sake but to ratify their membership among the elite, modern nations of the day. As happened in Europe, when authoritarian regimes seemed to offer a better answer to the challenge of modernity, democracy and the parties were abandoned. The post Cold War world may see nations develop in similar ways"--Leaf ii.

Download or read book A History of Russo Japanese Relations written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Russo-Japanese Relations offers an in-depth analysis of the history of relations between Russia and Japan from the eighteenth century until the present day, with views and interpretations from Russian and Japanese perspectives that showcase the differences and the similarities in their joint history, including the territory problem as well as economic exchange.

Download or read book U S and Japanese Intervention in the Russian Civil War written by Paul J. Welch Behringer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the U.S. and Japanese intervention in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1922. It assesses the civil war's impact on U.S.-Soviet-Japanese relations by integrating local, regional, and international perspectives of the conflict. Rather than emphasizing the intervention as the origins of the Cold War, the dissertation argues for analyzing this event in the context of its own time and place. It finds that the significance of U.S. and Japanese interference in the Russian Civil War lies in its effect on U.S.-Soviet-Japanese relations during the conflict and into the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, it demonstrates that strategies and perceptions of violence had a major impact on the civil war and the U.S-Soviet-Japanese triangular relationship.The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first four chapters cover U.S.-Russian-Japanese relations to 1918. In addition to describing the international context in which the Russian Revolution and Civil War erupted, this part of the dissertation contributes to the historiographical debate over U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's decision to intervene. It argues that his overarching goal was to prevent the dismemberment of the Russian Empire. Although Wilson preferred a non-Bolshevik alternative, he also failed to provide sustained support for either the Japanese or the anti-Bolshevik alternatives to Lenin's regime. Paradoxically, the commitment by Wilson (sustained by his successor, Warren G. Harding), eventually facilitated the Bolsheviks' reconstitution of the Russian Empire. The dissertation's second section focuses on the period of U.S. military intervention from the summer of 1918 to the spring of 1920. It argues that the violence of the Russian Civil War had a major impact on American perceptions of Russians and Japanese and that this affected U.S. policy toward Soviet Russia and Japan. In the end, U.S. officials fell back on explanations that fit into their suspicions that Russians (whether Bolshevik or anti-Bolshevik) and Japanese were uncivilized, prone to committing atrocities, and unworthy of American assistance and cooperation. In the Russian case, this meant reviving a long-term view of Russia as backward and prone to tyranny. This stereotype helped sustain the policy of nonrecognition of the Soviets throughout the 1920s. There were competing American stereotypes of Japanese prior to World War I. On the one hand, U.S. citizens in places with high levels of Japanese immigration continued to lump Japanese into the "yellow peril" and were strong advocates of exclusion. On the other hand, however, some American elites saw the Japanese as "honorary whites," the most civilized of all Asian peoples. The experience of the Siberian intervention demolished this latter, somewhat more positive stereotype. In its place, a more malevolent view of Japanese appeared-as a people prone to barbaric violence and duplicity. This perception helped pave the way for the 1924 immigration exclusion act that ended Japanese immigration to the United States. It also laid the groundwork for a dehumanized view of Japanese that fueled the brutality of the Pacific War from 1941-45. The dissertation's final part explores the period of Japanese occupation from 1920-22. It highlights the ways in which Japan's policy in Russia was connected to its concern about defending and expanding its empire. This section also demonstrates that strategies of violence are integral to understanding why the Bolsheviks won and the anti-Bolsheviks lost. It argues that, whereas the Bolsheviks focused on attacking state infrastructure, their opponents deployed a people-centric strategy aimed at rooting out ideological enemies. In doing so, the anti-Bolsheviks blurred the lines of ethnicity, criminality, and ideology, and were unable to secure territory under their command, instead fueling insurgency. In addition, the last section explains why the Soviet "buffer state" strategy successfully defeated Japan's own attempts to create a puppet in the Russian Far East. Finally, it demonstrates how the United States played an integral diplomatic role in securing Japanese evacuation from the region by convening the Washington Conference in 1921-22.

Download or read book Civil War in Siberia written by Jon Smele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the clash between the 'Reds' of the Moscow-based Soviet regime and the 'Whites', the militaristic, counter-revolutionary governments.

Download or read book Japanese Documents on the Siberian Intervention 1917 1922 November 1917 written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Siberian Intervention written by John Albert White and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Intervention in the Russian Far East written by Dalʹnevostochnai︠a︡ Respublika and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japan and the Siberian Expedition 1918 1920 an Evaluation of Japan s Role Within the Allied Intervention written by Adrienne M. Schizzano and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Russia s Far Eastern Republic 1905 1922 written by Ivan Sablin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward alternative futures, comprised different national groups, including Russians, Buryat-Mongols, Koreans, and Ukrainians; different imperialist projects, including Japanese and American attempts to integrate the region into their political and economic spheres of influence as well as the legacies of Russian expansionism and Bolshevik efforts to export the revolution to Mongolia, Korea, China, and Japan; and various local regionalists, who aimed for independence or strong regional autonomy for distinct Siberian and Far Eastern communities and whose efforts culminated in the short-lived Far Eastern Republic of 1920–1922. The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922 charts developments in the region, examines the interplay of the various forces, and explains how a Bolshevik version of state-centered nationalism prevailed.

Download or read book The Genesis of Japan s Siberian Policy 1918 written by John Daniel Hasler and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japan and the Siberian Expedition 1918 1920 an Evaluation of Japan s Role Within the Allied Intervention written by Lubor B. Schranil and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Churchill s Secret War With Lenin written by Damien Wright and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the little-known involvement of Royal Marines as they engaged the new Bolsheviks immediately after the Russian Revolution. After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin’s Bolsheviks (later known as “Soviets”) seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers and brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas (British King George’s first cousin) and his children so there could be no return to the old order. As Russia fractured into loyalist “White” and revolutionary “Red” factions, the British government became increasingly drawn into the escalating Russian Civil War after hundreds of thousands of German troops transferred from the Eastern Front to France were used in the 1918 “Spring Offensive” which threatened Paris. What began with the landing of a small number of Royal Marines at Murmansk in March 1918 to protect Allied-donated war stores quickly escalated with the British government actively pursuing an undeclared war against the Bolsheviks on several fronts in support of British trained and equipped “White Russian” Allies. At the height of British military intervention in mid-1919, British troops were fighting the Soviets far into the Russian interior in the Baltic, North Russia, Siberia, Caspian and Crimea simultaneously. The full range of weapons in the British arsenal were deployed including the most modern aircraft, tanks and even poison gas. British forces were also drawn into peripheral conflicts against “White” Finnish troops in North Russia and the German “Iron Division” in the Baltic. It remains a little-known fact that the last British troops killed by the German Army in the First World War were killed in the Baltic in late 1919, nor that the last Canadian and Australian soldiers to die in the First World War suffered their fate in North Russia in 1919 many months after the Armistice. Despite the award of five Victoria Crosses (including one posthumous) and the loss of hundreds of British and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen, most of whom remain buried in Russia, the campaign remains virtually unknown in Britain today. After withdrawal of all British forces in mid-1920, the British government attempted to cover up its military involvement in Russia by classifying all official documents. By the time files relating to the campaign were quietly released decades later there was little public interest. Few people in Britain today know that their nation ever fought a war against the Soviet Union. The culmination of more than 15 years of painstaking and exhaustive research with access to many previously classified official documents, unpublished diaries, manuscripts and personal accounts, author Damien Wright has written the first comprehensive campaign history of British and Commonwealth military intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918-20. “Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War remains forgotten. Wright’s book addresses that oversight, interspersing the broader story with personal accounts of participants.” —Military History Magazine

Download or read book Churchill s Crusade written by Clifford Kinvig and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure.

Download or read book World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan 1919 1930 written by Frederick R. Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examines the structural foundations of a new Japan, discussing the country's wholehearted participation in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace. Dickinson proposes that Japan's renewed drive for military expansion in the 1930s marked less a failure of Japan's interwar culture than the start of a tumultuous domestic debate over the most desirable shape of Japan's twentieth-century world. This stimulating study will engage students and researchers alike, offering a unique, global perspective of interwar Japan.