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Conscience on trial
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ISBN: 1442661070 9781442661073 9781442644618 1442644613 1442661089 Year: 2012 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press

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"Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the margins of Soviet society were clandestinely tried for allegedly advocating pacifism and adhering to the Saturday Sabbath. The only written records of this trial were sealed in the KGB archives in Kiev, and this harrowing episode has until now been unknown even within the Ukraine. Hiroaki Kuromiya has carefully analyzed these newly discovered documents, and in doing so, reveals a fascinating picture of private life and religious belief under the atheist Stalinist regime. Kuromiya convincingly elucidates the mechanism of the Soviet secret police and explores the minds of non-conformist believers -precursors to the revival of dissidence after Stalin's death in 1953"--Publisher's website.


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Stalin, Japan, and the struggle for supremacy over China, 1894-1945
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ISBN: 1003203353 1000832201 1032066733 1032066768 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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"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 into a weapon of its own destruction. The book examines Stalin's covert operations from the murder of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 and the publication of the forged "Tanaka Memorial" in 1929, to Stalin's hidden role in Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the outbreak of all-out war between China and Japan in 1937, and Japan's defeat in 1945. In the shadow of these and other events we find Stalin and his secret operatives, including many Chinese and Japanese collaborators, most notably Zhang Xueliang and Kōmoto Daisaku, the self-professed assassin of Zhang Zuolin. The book challenges accounts of the turbulent history of inter-war East Asia that have ignored or minimized Stalin's presence and instead exposes and analyzes Stalin's secret modus operandi, modernized as "hybrid war" in today's Russia. The book is essential for students and specialists of Stalin, China, the Soviet Union, Japan, and East Asia"--


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Eurasian Triangle. Russia, The Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945
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ISBN: 3110469790 Year: 2016 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945
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ISBN: 1000832171 Year: 2023 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The Eurasian Triangle : Russia, the Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945
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ISBN: 3110469510 3110469596 Year: 2016 Publisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open,

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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.


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Red Quarter Moon : A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin
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ISBN: 1442694165 9781442694163 1442694173 1442611391 1442642505 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Konrad's search for these missing extended family members took place over twenty years and five continents - on muddy roads, lonesome steppes, and in old letters, documents, or secret police archives. Her story emerges as both haunting and inspiring, filled with dramatically different accounts from survivors now scattered across the world. She aligns the voices of her subjects chronologically against the backdrop of Soviet policy, intertwining the historical context of the Terror Years with her own personal quest. Red Quarter Moon is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR."--Pub. desc. "Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR.


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Russia's Overlooked Invasion: The Causes of the 2014 Outbreak of War in Ukraine’s Donbas. With a Foreword by Hiroaki Kuromiya
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ISBN: 3838218035 3838278038 Year: 2023 Publisher: ibidem-Verlag Jessica Haunschild / Christian Schon GbR

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From Communism to Anti-Communism : Photographs from the Boris Souvarine Collection at the Graduate Institute, Geneva

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