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2021-07-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

1904: The beginning of the revolution in Russia: The first failures of the army

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Posted by badanov 2021-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2021-07-07 06:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-07-07 07:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-07-07 13:08|| Front Page Top

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