Russian soldiers of the kwantung army: a myth of Russian samurais
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2014.1.039Keywords:
Kwantung Army; Manchukuo; Japanese Empire; Asano Brigade; Russian emigration; E. V. YakovkinAbstract
The article reviews the book by E. V. Yakovkin Russian Soldiers of the Kwantung Army (Moscow : Veche, 2014) noting the timely character of the book on this little-studied subject, but is on many occasions critical of the work. According to the reviewer, the book in question makes an impression of a secondary one, and lacks sources; the author makes ungrounded conclusions and has a biased research approach, which is inappropriate for present-day historical studies.
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