Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Russian Far East News
Author: Burnt by the Sun
Author: Jon K. ChangPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824876741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic community) during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. He argues that Tsarist influences and the various forms of Russian nationalism(s) and worldviews blinded the Stalinist regime from seeing the Koreans as loyal Soviet citizens. Instead, these influences portrayed them as a colonizing element (labor force) with unknown and unknowable political loyalties. One of the major findings of Chang’s research was the depth that the Soviet state was able to influence, penetrate, and control the Koreans through not only state propaganda and media, but also their selection and placement of Soviet Korean leaders, informants, and secret police within the populace. From his interviews with relatives of former Korean OGPU/NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB) officers, he learned of Korean NKVD who helped deport their own community. Given these facts, one would think the Koreans should have been considered a loyal Soviet people. But this was not the case, mainly due to how the Russian empire and, later, the Soviet state linked political loyalty with race or ethnic community. During his six years of fieldwork in Central Asia and Russia, Chang interviewed approximately sixty elderly Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East prior to their deportation in 1937. This oral history along with digital technology allowed him to piece together Soviet Korean life as well as their experiences working with and living beside Siberian natives, Chinese, Russians, and the Central Asian peoples. Chang also discovered that some two thousand Soviet Koreans remained on North Sakhalin island after the Korean deportation was carried out, working on Japanese-Soviet joint ventures extracting coal, gas, petroleum, timber, and other resources. This showed that Soviet socialism was not ideologically pure and was certainly swayed by Japanese capitalism and the monetary benefits of projects that paid the Stalinist regime hard currency for its resources.
The Russian Far East
Author: John J. StephanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804727013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Based on a quarter-century of research by a leading authority on the area, this is a monumental survey from prehistoric times to the present. Drawing from political, diplomatic, economic, geographical, social, and cultural evidence, the book reveals that this vast, rugged, and supposedly insular land has harbored vibrantly cosmopolitan lifestyles.
Russia's Turn to the East
Author: Helge BlakkisrudPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319697900
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the eastern vector in its external relations. But to what extent has Russia’s 'pivot to the East' intensified or changed in nature – domestically and internationally – since the onset of the current crisis in relations with the West? Rather than taking the declared 'pivot' as a fact and exploring the consequences of it, the contributors to this volume explore whether a pivot has indeed happened or if what we see today is the continuation of longer-duration trends, concerns and ambitions.
Russia in the Far East (1922)
Author: Leo PasvolskyPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781437072372
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
How to Lose the Information War
Author: Nina JankowiczPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838607692
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, including Ukraine and Poland, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get US congress to act, make for essential reading. How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics - all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.
Development of the Russian Far East (RFE)
Author: U. S. MilitaryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781983122552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
In the face of Western sanctions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Putin has shifted the Kremlin's focus toward Asia to stimulate Russia's economic development. To aid in this process, he has prioritized developing the Russian Far East (RFE) by populating the region through multiple incentives, including a federal law granting a hectare of free land to those willing to relocate to the RFE. However, the plan has met several challenges, due to inadequate infrastructure to attract citizens from developed western regions of the country, limited employment opportunities, and a lack of domestic and foreign investment. These problems are closely related to one another and must be resolved simultaneously for development to succeed. Russian policy reforms, better incentives, more favorable immigration policies for foreigners (including neighboring Chinese), and a closer working relationship between the Kremlin and the local administration to decrease corruption will all be needed if Russia is going to have any hopes of deriving meaningful benefits from its pivot to Asia. I. INTRODUCTION * A. MAJOR RESEARCH QUESTION * B. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH QUESTION * C. LITERATURE REVIEW * 1. Environment * 2. Domestic Economy * 3. Foreign Investment * D. POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS AND HYPOTHESES * E. RESEARCH DESIGN * F. THESIS OVERVIEW * II. SETTLEMENT IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST * A. NO MAN'S LAND: THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST * B. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: CHANGING OWNERSHIP OF THE RFE * 1. Russia's Expansion to the Far East * 2. Soviet Union's Plan for Its Far East * C. POPULATION CHALLENGES: OUT-MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION * 1. Russian Immigration: Organization and Policy * 2. Out-migration from the Region * 3. Immigration: Could It Be a Solution? * 4. Post-Soviet Immigration * D. SOLUTION TO POPULATE THE LAND: FREE LAND TO ALL RUSSIANS. * 1. The Free Land Project in the News * 2. Free Land in the Russian Far East: Gift or Burden? * 3. Implementation of the Free Land Law * 4. Challenges of the Far Eastern Hectare Project * 5. Unsuccessful Initiative: Non-existent Benefits Package * III. INTERNAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST * A. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE: THE HARSH CLIMATE * B. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS * 1. Tsarist Russia's Economic Development of the RFE * 2. The Transport System-The Lifeline for Economic Prosperity * 3. Economic Development: Priority or Periphery? * C. ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION, AND ENSUING POLLUTION * 1. Illegal Activities with No Regard to the Environment * 2. Proposed Solution to Resolve Issues Related to the Region's Periphery Status * IV. THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF NORTHEAST ASIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST * A. RUSSIAN FEDERATION * B. CHINA * C. JAPAN * D. SOUTH KOREA (ROK) * E. NORTH KOREA (DPRK) * F. PROSPECTS OF REFORM IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST * V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS * A. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH: RUSSIA'S PIVOT TO ASIA * B. FINDINGS: ROOT CAUSES OF THESE CHALLENGES * C. IMPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS: WHAT CAN RUSSIA DO?
The Russian Far East
Author: Susan F. DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134479263
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) and offers an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth.
The Russian Far East
Author: Sergey DarkinPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315341824
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Russian Far East is one of the most strategically important regions of Russia. The Russian Far East and the development of its manufacturing strength determine Russia’s role in a major economic area of the world: the Asia-Pacific region. The degree to which the transportation, telecommunications, and social infrastructure of the Pacific coast of Russia are developed will predetermine the export potential of the country. This important research presents the strategic scenario for the most effective use of resources of the Russian Far East.
RUSSIA'S FAR EAST (p)
Author: Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295802411
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
