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

14 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Russia’s rapid expansion into Asia disquieted other imperial powers as well, al- though they, too, j ...

War Ë 15 ing the Northern Caucasian peoples, the Southern Caucasian states (today’s Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijani), and Cent ...

16 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.1.Giichi Tanaka, future prime minister of Japan (in the 1920s). tianity and regularly went to ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 17 again traveled to southern Russia and the Caucasus, where demonstrations and indus- trial strikes fre ...

18 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.2.Motojiro Akashi (c. 1904). ̄ was burdensome enough to hinder his intelligence work, he was ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 19 Fig. 2.3.Motojir ̄o Akashi (probably in the 1910s). In the course of the war, the General Sta gave A ...

20 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Assisted by Japanese diplomats and ocers stationed in Europe as well as English socialists and Swed ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 21 Fig. 2.4.Varlam Cherkezishvili (Varlaam Cherkezov), London, beginning of the twentieth century. Socia ...

22 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.5.Artshil Dzhordzhadze (beginning of the twentieth century). view he held of Georgians in gen ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 23 Fig. 2.6.Giorgi Dekanozishvili (in a mining engineer’s uniform) with his parents and sister, Tiflis, ...

24 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.7.Giorgi Dekanozishvili (Paris, beginning of the twentieth century). the meeting. Yet the Bol ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 25 Fig. 2.8.Giorgi Dekanozishvili’s identication card as a European reporter for the Georgian patriotic ...

26 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.9.Title page ofLa Géorgie, the rst Georgian periodical published in Europe (1903). of the Ge ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 27 Fig. 2.10.Title page ofSakartvelo(Georgia), the rst Georgian periodical published in Europe (1903). ...

28 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.11.Participants in the founding conference of the Georgian Party of Socialist Federalists, Ge ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 29 racy but a possible “centralist republic” that could hinder the “social, economic, and national liber ...

30 Ë The Russo-Japanese War Fig. 2.12.Giorgi Dekanozishvili and Mikheil Kiknadze (Paris, 1905). Elsewhere in the Caucasus, espec ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 31 Fig. 2.13.Giorgi Dekanozishvili, his wife Henriette Frenois, and children Tinatin and Tariel (Paris, ...

32 Ë The Russo-Japanese War ing.” Indeed, the whole province resisted and, as Villari described it, was “drenched in blood.”⁴⁵ I ...

The Akashi Operations Ë 33 peoples. When bloodied Armenians and Muslims are lying on the streets of Baku, our enemy gloats and t ...