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Revolution Goes East
Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
BY TATIANA LINKHOEVA

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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.

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"Tatiana Linkhoeva's meticulously detailed Revolution Goes East shows that Japanese responses to Soviet socialism during the 1920s and 30s were no exception to this. Indeed given the country's situation at the time, the diversity of views on the revolution held by various government factions, the military, and society at large was especially diverse."Newbooks Netowrk.com


"Linkhoeva's book brings a new line of analysis and new material to modern Japanese history, and will impact histories of the left, of the interwar period, of prewar politics and of Russo-Japanese relations."Louise Young, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of Japan's Total Empire


"Revolution Goes East is a carefully researched and thoughtful study of the impact of the Russian revolution and Soviet communism on Japanese intellectual thought and imperial strategy during the 1920s."Janis Mimura, Associate Professor of History at SUNY at Stony Brook, author of Planning for Empire