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| 1904: The beginning of the revolution in Russia: The first failures of the army |
| 2021-07-07 |
| Direct translation of the article via Google Translate Edited. by Oleg Airapetov At the first stage of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian fleet was unable to establish control over the sea, its actions were generally unsuccessful. Nevertheless, it remained a fleet in being, a factor, a threat to communications, which the Japanese had to reckon with. This threat was not an obstacle to the transfer of the Japanese army from the islands to the continent, and above all to Korea. The failures of the fleet were followed by the failures of the army. All this did not meet the expectations of Russian society. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 /\ The River and the Gauntlet(1953) by S.L.A. Marshall. I bought a used copy many years ago and it was the first book I read about the Korean War. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-07-07 13:08 |
| #2 The local population did not support the Russians. Moreover, it was often tuned in favor of the Japanese. The Japanese who'd run the place till 1945 spent a lot of time wiping out the Korean culture and language, not to mention many Koreans. For some reason, the Koreans still harbor ill feeling over that. When retreating, part of the troops mixed with the convoys and began to lose organization. At the shouts of "Cavalry!", Which was constantly seen by carts, from time to time panic began, turning the retreating crowds into fleeing crowds. As a result, the chaos only intensified - the carts went without loads abandoned in flight, the artillerymen - without weapons lost in battle. Sounds like the panic retreat of the US 2d Division from the Yalu, circa 1950, just vehicles rather than carts, and Chinese rather than Japanese. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-07 07:15 |
| #1 ...Very much enjoying these posts. For a lot more background, let me suggest Black Night, White Snow by Harrison Salisbury, which covers the time from the first revolution to the end of the October revolution. It's a massive read, but as poetic and all-encompassing as anything by Tolstoy. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-07 06:14 |