I AM not a Bolshevik. Moreover, I am an enemy of the Bolsheviks, having fought them with a rifle in my hands as well as in the field of ideas. Nor am I a monarchist. I do not favor a restoration of ...
The Soviet press alleges that General Semenov, at the head of counter-revolutionary organisations in Manchuria, is trying to secure Japanese support for the overthrow of the Soviet regime in Mongolia, ...
TREATIES of peace for the Far East still wait on the writing of treaties for Europe. But the pattern which is emerging at Paris is highly significant for all Far Eastern peoples. Several countries, ...
The summer holiday of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako was cut short last week by fierce fighting in Soviet Siberia and in North China. Their Majesties hurried from the seaside back to a ...
Nearly every analyst during the Cold War agreed that, if Moscow and Washington could keep the nukes from flying, the Central Front in Europe would prove decisive in war between the United States and ...
From May to September 1939, the USSR and Japan fought an undeclared war involving over 100,000 troops. It may have altered world history. In the summer of 1939, Soviet and Japanese armies clashed on ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Both the Soviets and the Americans had options in Asia. The strategic environment was far more fluid than in Europe, allowing a variety of different choices to ...
Truth is stranger than fiction. Or so we are told. But there are moments when fiction is stranger than truth -- and on occasion, it is difficult to tell the difference between them. Vassily Aksyonov’s ...