Revolution Goes East : : Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism / / Tatiana Linkhoeva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Linkhoeva, Tatiana,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment, and the issue of imperialism played a fundamental role in shaping Japan's imperial society and state.In this bold approach, Linkhoeva explores attitudes toward the Soviet Union and the communist movement among the Japanese military and politicians, as well as interwar leftist and rightist intellectuals and activists. Her book draws on extensive research in both published and archival documents, including memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, political pamphlets, and Comintern archives. Revolution Goes East presents us with a compelling argument that the interwar Japanese Left replicated the Orientalist outlook of Marxism-Leninism in its relationship with the rest of Asia, and that this proved to be its undoing. Furthermore, Linkhoeva shows that Japanese imperial anticommunism was based on geopolitical interests for the stability of the empire rather than on fear of communist ideology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments and Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Two Russias -- Part I. "OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOR" -- 1. Before 1917 -- 2. Revolution and Intervention -- 3. The Anti-Western Revolution -- 4. Anticommunism Within -- Part II. THE JAPANESE LEFT AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION -- 5. Anarchism against Bolshevism -- 6. The Japanese Communist Party and the Comintern -- 7. National Socialism and Soviet Communism -- Conclusion: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism in the 1930s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index