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

154 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan ligence to each other, Germany and Japan were also to exchange their views of the in- tellige ...

The Anti-Comintern Pact Ë 155 links by Caspian boats and setting up radio communication. The plan for the Cauca- sus for the sam ...

156 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan Using its extensive intelligence network, Moscow was well versed in the Japanese- German nego ...

The Great Terror Ë 157 be there illegally.¹¹⁴In fact, more than ve thousand Kurds, Muslim Armenians, and Turks in Azerbaijan we ...

158 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan initial limits given by Moscow were 2,000 and 3,000, respectively.¹²²To be exact, the order o ...

The Great Terror Ë 159 dred of them.¹²⁸Little reliable aggregate data are available on the other regions of the Caucasus. In the ...

160 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan to Beria, staged armed uprisings to be coordinated with military intervention by a foreign po ...

The Great Terror Ë 161 Fig. 6.5.Kapiton Kvaratskhelia (seated on the right) and his daughter Susanna (standing). the time: 275 ( ...

162 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan were not repressed. Bogdan Z. Kabulov, then working in the secret police in Tbilisi, issued a ...

The Great Terror Ë 163 By contrast, Pavel Miliukov, a liberal Russian leader in exile, reached the curious conclusion that in th ...

164 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan of the Soviet Communist Party.) Iran, in turn, according to Ezhov, retaliated against Soviet ...

Clandestine Operations Ë 165 6.6 Clandestine Operations In line with theOshima-Canaris agreement of May 1937, Japan soon impleme ...

166 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan Fig. 6.6.Haidar Bammat, his wife, Shigeki Usui, and two unidentied individuals, Lausanne, Sw ...

Clandestine Operations Ë 167 Fig. 6.7.From left: Alikhan Kantemir, Khalil bey Khasmammadov, and Haidar Bammat, Istanbul, 1938. s ...

168 Ë The Caucasus Group and Japan a celebration of the 750th anniversary of the Georgian national poet Shota Rustaveli, which w ...

7 War and Dénouement The events leading up to the beginning of World War II in Europe are well known, and yet much remains to be ...

170 Ë War and Dénouement had steadily declined after the death of Piłsudski, its political sponsor, in 1935, and the new orienta ...

The Realignment of Forces Ë 171 to conclude some form of formal agreement with Poland. The Polish representatives responded to t ...

172 Ë War and Dénouement Meanwhile, the international situation began changing dramatically in both East and West. With the Ansc ...

An Attempt on Stalin’s Life? Ë 173 to have been in touch with Carpatho-Ruthenian activists and to have encouraged Bam- mat and h ...