New article in the Journal of Cold War Studies
Credit: Amy King
Hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war were detained or living in the Soviet Union and Communist-controlled parts of China in the turbulent decade from the end of World War II to the early years of the Cold War. But Soviet and Chinese authorities differed significantly in how they made use of, communicated with, and conceptualized the Japanese under their control.
In our new article in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Sherzod Muminov and I argue that comparing Soviet and CCP treatment of these Japanese allows us to observe the uncertain and unsettled period of the early Cold War in East Asia and the ways it was embedded in East Asia's recent wars.
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