The Eurasian Triangle. Russia, the Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945

Hiroaki Kuromiya and Georges Mamoulia The Eurasian Triangle Russia, The Caucasus and Japan, 1904- ...

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Hiroaki Kuromiya and Georges Mamoulia The Eurasian Triangle Russia, The Caucasus and Japan, 1904- Ê Managing Editor: Katarzyna I ...

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1 IntroductionÊ Acknowledgments and NotesÊVI 2 The Russo-Japanese WarÊ 2.1 WarÊ 2.2 The Akashi OperationsÊ 2.3 Japan and “Total ...

Acknowledgments and Notes We would like to express our gratitude to all the libraries and archives, both public and private, in ...

1 Introduction The Caucasus lies far from Japan. The distance from Tokyo to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, for example, is almost ...

2 Ë Introduction Fig. 1.1.The Caucasus and Japan. outline the clandestine operations of Japan and various Caucasian political gr ...

Introduction Ë 3 the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus is sometimes divided into the Southern Caucasus (Tran- scaucasia, roughly encompa ...

4 Ë Introduction Fig. 1.2.The Geography of the Caucasus. arrival of Russian rulers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries th ...

Introduction Ë 5 Diversity also meant fragmentation. Consequently the fragmented Caucasus was historically at the mercy of neigh ...

6 Ë Introduction Fig. 1.3.The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus in the nineteenth century. most celebrated heroes in the Northern ...

Introduction Ë 7 By the time the Caucasian War ended, however, Russia itself had begun to change rapidly. Its defeat in the Crim ...

8 Ë Introduction justice of the peace was not introduced in the Caucasus. In any case, the reform it- self did not extend to the ...

Introduction Ë 9 ing milieu, which was largely Muslim) and in part because both groups produced larger numbers of educated peopl ...

10 Ë Introduction Caucasian-Japanese nexus, adopted in the beginning of the twentieth century the ban- ner of Socialist-Federali ...

Introduction Ë 11 the time Japan and Britain were drawn increasingly closer against their common foe of Russia, culminating in t ...

12 Ë Introduction mass. The Caucasian-Japanese nexus was part of this history. Later during the Cold War, these secret wars, inc ...

2 The Russo-Japanese War In the mid-nineteenth century, after more than two centuries of international isola- tion, Japan opened ...