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

114 Ë Renewal complete independence of the Caucasian Republics and the establishment of an alliance between them.³³ In September ...

International Realignments Ë 115 Fig. 5.1.Władysław Baranowski, Polish ambassador in Turkey with his wife; Sadazuchi Uchida, Jap ...

116 Ë Renewal in Kobe, Japan, and based in Istanbul, was hired out to other businesses, the Nitta company often failed to pay it ...

International Realignments Ë 117 by the Bolsheviks” and it was “supported by European powers hostile to the Soviet Union, morall ...

118 Ë Renewal Fig. 5.2.Georgian ocers in the Polish Army in the 1920s, Warsaw. ant neighbor.⁴⁶Japan was thus familiar, to an ex ...

International Realignments Ë 119 occupied Caucasus. In 1925–26, German General Max Homann (who had led the German oensive agai ...

120 Ë Renewal While striving to divide émigré communities, Moscow also applied considerable pressure to Turkey to expel their le ...

The Renewal of Japan’s Interests in the Caucasus Ë 121 5.3 The Renewal of Japan’s Interests in the Caucasus Having grown into a ...

122 Ë Renewal that shortly after the suppression of the rebellions in 1924, “counterrevolutionary [i.e., Georgian patriotic] ele ...

The Renewal of Japan’s Interests in the Caucasus Ë 123 further from there to Persia, Afghanistan, India, and even to Central Asi ...

124 Ë Renewal At any rate it is absolutely necessary for Japan to maintain good relations with Britain in the event of conict b ...

The Renewal of Japan’s Interests in the Caucasus Ë 125 It is likely that Hashimoto associated with Caucasian émigré groups in Tu ...

126 Ë Renewal Also, Abdürreşid Ibrahim, a Russian Tatar (expelled earlier from Japan at the Rus- sian government’s demand [see c ...

The Renewal of Japan’s Interests in the Caucasus Ë 127 pressed their agreement, the Japanese envoy appointed them commanders of ...

6 The Caucasus Group and Japan The year 1931 marked an important turning point in the interwar history of the world. In Septembe ...

Moscow versus Tokyo Ë 129 nent role. Although Moscow was not averse to recovering the territory the Russian Empire had lost to J ...

130 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan Japanese authorities of underground Korean operatives. Stating that such activities might pro ...

Moscow versus Tokyo Ë 131 Simultaneously, Moscow sought to strengthen the home front in the Far East. In January 1932, for examp ...

132 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan Britain, France, Italy, and in particular the United States – all of which maintained extra ...

Moscow versus Tokyo Ë 133 the port when frozen.²³Thus Moscow and Washington formed a virtual united front against Japan. This wa ...