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Jockeying for Position in the Postwar World: Soviet Entry into the War with Japan in August 1945
Book ChapterAuthor
David Holloway - Stanford University
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Stanford University in "The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals", Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, ed., page(s): 145-188
2007
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This chapter examines the Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War. It presents a long and broad perspective on Moscow's motivations in participating in the war, going back to the historical Russo-Japanese rivalry and to the end of Soviet operations in the Kurils immediately after the war.
Topics: Nuclear history | Japan | Russia
