{"product_id":"stalin-japan-and-the-struggle-for-supremacy-over-china-1894-1945-paperback","title":"Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 1894-1945 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHiroaki Kuromiya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStalin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is essential for students and specialists of Stalin, China, the Soviet Union, Japan, and East Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHiroaki Kuromiya\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of history emeritus, Indiana University, USA. He has authored, among others, \u003cem\u003eFreedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eStalin\u003c\/em\u003e (Profiles in Power) (2005), \u003cem\u003eThe Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eConscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and \u003cem\u003eZrozumity Donbas\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and coauthored \u003cem\u003eMiędzy Warszawą a Tokio: Polsko-japońska wspólpraca wywiadowcza 1904-1944\u003c\/em\u003e (2009, with Andrzej Peploński) and \u003cem\u003eThe Eurasian Triangle: Russia, The Caucasus, and Japan, 1904-1945\u003c\/em\u003e (2016, with Georges Mamoulia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 532\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52623138849075,"sku":"9781032066769","price":96.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/czZhMU5acm5CWXQyZ3BQbC9SN0Y5Zz09.webp?v=1761983792","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/stalin-japan-and-the-struggle-for-supremacy-over-china-1894-1945-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}