Аннотация: A primitive historiography of the Japanese invasion of the Russian Far East. The essay.
A primitive historiography of the Japanese invasion of the Russian Far East. The essay.
By chance I saw a book by Alexei Shishov, "Russia and Japan (A history of military conflicts)." [электронная книга Шишова Алексея Васильевича 'Россия и Япония (История военных конфликтов)']
Since the Russian historical tradition is to write nothing or almost nothing about the Washington Naval Conference (held from November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922 during the term of office of 29th president of the United States Warren G. Harding), I began to read the text that referred to 1920 -1922 years.
Yes, indeed, a lot of text is devoted to the Japanese occupation of the Far East ...
The author of the book even outlined a quote from Vladimir Lenin (speech at the VIII All-Russian Congress of Soviets on December 21, 1920). I was not familiar with this quote before. If to believe this quote, then Vladimir Ilyich admitted the lack of forces in Soviet Russia for the war with Japan: "... the Far East, Kamchatka and a piece of Siberia are actually in possession of Japan ... ... circumstances forced us to create a buffer state - in the form of the Far Eastern Republic ... But nevertheless, we ...must do everything in order to try not only to postpone the war with Japan, but, if possible, to avoid it ... To wage war against Japan ... we have no possibilities, absolutely ... " [Here and further, quotations from the book by A.V. Shishov]
When the Red Army reached Irkutsk, an order was given to suspend the movement - so as not to enter the war with Japan. ("... the advance of the Red Army was stopped immediately beyond Irkutsk, at the turn of Lake Baikal - behind the Verkhneudinsk [Ulan-Ude], Japanese garrisons were already standing along the Trans-Siberian Railway").
What a kind state Japan was ... She withdrew troops from the Russian Far East - in a situation when she occupied the territory up to Irkutsk ...
Once in this book I even met a mention of the Washington Conference - at this conference, it turns out, some incident was mentioned ...
("Subsequently, he [the so-called Nikolaev incident] appeared as" irrefutable "evidence of the" aggressiveness of the Russians "at many international conferences in Washington, Dairen and Chanchun, where issues of the relationship of the capitalist world with Soviet Russia were discussed.').
However, I did not read the entire book - it needed a lot of time for this.
(There is, also, such a phrase in the book by A. V. Shishov. I quote without corrections: 'After the Washington Conference, when the maritime alliance between the powers was broken, a global Pacific conflict begins to form between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and Japan on the other.').
A lot of interesting things about the struggle of local residents against the Japanese occupation. Yes, people were a heroic ones... Where are they now? They say that there is a large outflow of population from the Russian Far East (by the way ... what kind of population?).
Some data on the number of Japanese citizens in several large cities of the Far East are presented. (The Japanese army needed a pretext for the invasion. This pretext was the defense of Japanese subjects). It seems that the maximum was a few thousand, and in some settlements there were only a several hundred.
('According to official figures, 3283 Japanese citizens lived in Vladivostok, 325 in Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, 573 in Khabarovsk, 338 in Blagoveshchensk, 19 in Nerchinsk, 218 in Chita, 308 people of Japanese nationality in Sretensk . ')
In general, the Japanese army turned out to be a very kind organization. She left the Russian Far East herself. And there was no war with Soviet Russia. And with the Far Eastern (temporary, buffer, partly decorative) republic there were mutual diplomatic maneuvers.
'At four o'clock that afternoon on October 25 [1922], the troops of the People's Revolutionary Army [of the Far Eastern Republic] solemnly, without firing a shot, entered the city of Vladivostok.'
An interesting mention of the "enterprises of the Bureysky mountain district." It turns out there was such a district ...
This fragment of the text (with an evading off a discussion of the US foreign policy influence on the history of the Russian Far East), in my opinion, is a vivid example of the primitive historiography of the Russian Far East.
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May 12, 2020 15:03
Translation from Russian into English: May 13, 2020 22:57.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Примитивная историография японского вторжения на российский Дальний Восток. Очерк'.