Japan seriously considered attacking the Soviet Union during World War II, but internal divisions and battlefield reality changed that calculation. After brutal border clashes with Soviet ...

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

Negotiations (for Japanese recognition of Soviet Russia) between the Japanese Government and the Russian A. A. Joffe, reached an impasse, with the refusal of Joffe to admit Russian responsibility for ...

Why didn't Japan Join the Offensive against Soviet Union ...

The results of the Russo-Japanese negotiations for the settlement of the Japanese claims in the northern half of the island of Sakhalin and of indemnity for the Nikolaievsk massacre are withheld from ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the ...