Jockeying for Position in the Postwar World: Soviet Entry into the War with Japan in August 1945

Jockeying for Position in the Postwar World: Soviet Entry into the War with Japan in August 1945

This chapter examines the Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War. It presents a long and broad perspective on Moscow's motivations in participating in the war, going back to the historical Russo-Japanese rivalry and to the end of Soviet operations in the Kurils immediately after the war.