Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of
China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the
Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between
China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving
more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker's The
1929 SinoSoviet War is the first full account of what UPI's Moscow
correspondent called 'the war nobody knew' a 'limited modern war'
that destabilized the region's balance of power, altered East Asian
history, and sent grim reverberations through a global community
giving lip service to demilitarizing in the wake of World War I.
Walker locates the roots of the conflict in miscalculations by
Chiang Kaishek and Chang Hsuehliang about the Soviets' political
and military power-flawed assessments that prompted China's attempt
to reassert full authority over the CER. The Soviets, on the other
hand, were dominated by a Stalin eager to flex some military muscle
and thoroughly convinced that war would win much more than petty
negotiations. This was in fact, Walker shows, a watershed moment
for Stalin, his regime, and his still young and untested military,
disproving the assumption that the Red Army was incapable of
fighting a modern war. By contrast, the outcome revealed how
unprepared the Chinese military forces were to fight either the Red
Army or the Imperial Japanese Army, their other primary regional
competitor. And yet, while the Chinese commanders proved weak,
Walker sees in the toughness of the overmatched infantry a hint of
the rising nationalism that would transform China's troops from a
mercenary army into a formidable professional force, with powerful
implications for an overconfident Japanese Imperial Army in 1937.
Using Russian, Chinese, and Japanese sources, as well as
declassified US military reports, Walker deftly details the war
from its onset through major military operations to its aftermath,
giving the first clear and complete account of a little known but
profoundly consequential clash of great powers between the World
Wars.
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