THE RISE OF RUSSIA IN ASIA.

DALLIN, DAVID J.

Verlag: Hollis and Carter., London, 1950

Beschreibung

FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. xi + [iii] + 293 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has some edge wear and hips. Boards water stained and lightly sunned at top edge. a little spotting of edges, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 10 pages of maps. Map endpapers. An account of Russian foreign relations with East Asia up to 1931. It covers the Russian Empire's drive to the Pacific, war with Japan, the acquisition of territory from China, the effects of the first Chinese Revolution and of the Russian Revolution, armed conflict in Manchuria and the impact of Chinese Communism. By David J. Dallin (1889-1902), Russian born (as David Yulevich Levin) Menshevik, who went into exile in Germany and in 1939 to the US, where he became an anti-Communist and a writer of books on the Soviet Union. First edition published by Yale, 1949. HISTORY/THEOLOGY RUSSIA ASIA HISTORY POLITICS 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY MAPS- HISTORY/THEOLOGY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29097

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Titel: THE RISE OF RUSSIA IN ASIA.

Verlag: Hollis and Carter., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1950