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Name: 1951-02-7006682-Sakhalin-Japan
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Title: 1951-02-7006682-Sakhalin-Japan
Author: John J. Stephan
Language: angielski
Year: 1971
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 17

Sakhalin has for centuries served as a natural bridge between the continent of Asia and the Japanese archipelago. Prehistoric migrations converged on Sakhalin from Alaska, Siberia, and Japan. Chinese and Mongol armies invaded it several times. Through the testimony of Anton Chekhov and others, it attained international notoriety as Tsarist Russia's most dreaded penal colony. A perennially contested frontier between Russia and Japan. Sakhalin has earned the sobriquet, "East Asia's Alsace-Lorraine". Since 1945, it has emerged as an economic and strategic bastion of the Soviet Union in the Far East. Enduring associations with China and Japan, uniquely rich natural resources, and a sensitive geographical location all suggest that Sakhalin will continue to be a topic of absorbing interest. Based upon Russian, Japanese, and Chinese sources, this is the first comprehensive history of Sakhalin.