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Part I. Russia and the First World War -- Russia enters the war -- The political crisis of the summer 1915 -- Deepening gulf: the government and the liberals, 1916 -- Petrograd during the war -- The war and the workers -- The war and the revolutionary parties -- Part II. On the eve -- The tsar, the tsarina, and the government -- The security of Petrograd -- The liberal opposition -- The liberals, conspiracies, and the freemasons -- The workers and the revolutionary parties -- Part III. The uprising -- The beginning: February 23 -- The second day: February 24 -- The general strike: February 25 -- Bloody Sunday: February 26 -- The insurrection, February 27 -- Part IV. The Petrograd Soviet and the Duma Committee -- The formation of the Petrograd Soviet -- The formation of the Duma Committee -- The first steps of the Duma Committee -- The Petrograd Soviet and the masses -- The 'transfer' of power -- Part V. The abdication of Nicholas II -- Nicholas II and the revolution -- The Duma Committee and the monarchy -- The Stavka and counterrevolutionary attempts -- The abdication of Nicholas II -- The Duma Committee's delegates -- Part VI. The formation of the Provisional Government and the birth of dual power -- The formation of the Provisional Government -- Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich's renunciation of the throne -- The Provisional Government, the State Duma, and the birth of dual power -- Conclusion

Introduction: East Asia-the second significant front of the Cold War / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Struggles for modernity: the Golden years of the Sino-Soviet alliance / Odd Arne Westad -- The second front of the Soviet Cold War: Asia in the system of Moscow's foreign policy priorities, 1945-1956 / Ilya V. Gaiduk -- Reorienting the Cold War: the implications of China's early Cold War experience, taking Korea as a central test case / Chen Jian -- Military occupation and empire building in Cold War Asia: the United States and Korea, 1945-1955 / Steven Hugh Lee -- Kim Il Sung's balancing act between Moscow and Beijing, 1956-1972 / Nobuo Shimotomai -- Chinese foreign policy, 1960-1979 / Lorenz Lüthi -- Japan's foreign policy under détente: relations with China and the Soviet Union, 1971-1973 / Kazuhiko Togo -- A strategic quadrangle: the superpowers and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1977-1978 / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Korea's great divergence: North and South Korea between 1972 and 1987 / Gregg Brazinsky -- Gorbachev's policy toward East Asia, 1985-1991 / Vladislav Zubok -- Inertia and change: Soviet policy toward Korea, 1985-1991 / Sergey Radchenko

Introduction / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Introducing the interpretive problems of Japan's 1945 surrender: a historiographical essay on recent literature in the West / Barton J. Bernstein -- Ketsu gō: Japanese political and military strategy in 1945 / Richard B. Frank -- The atomic bomb and Soviet entry into the war: of equal importance / Sumio Hatano -- The atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion: which was more important in Japan's decision to surrender? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Jockeying for position in the postwar world: Soviet entry into the war with Japan in August 1945 / David Holloway -- The Soviet factor in ending the Pacific War: from the neutrality pact to Soviet entry into the war in august 1945 / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Conclusion: the interpretive dialogue,1989-2005, and various proposals for understanding the ending of the war and why and how Japan surrendered / Barton J. Bernstein

In the crucial period from 1978 to 1975, Japan jettisoned its "omnidirectional" foreign policy and embraced a closer and more integrated defense alliance with the United States. Concern about the Soviet threat was the chief motive for this shift. The deployment of Soviet troops in the Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles), the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the deployment of Soviet Backfire bombers and SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far East all provided impetus toward closer U.S.-Japanese defense cooperation. As Japan closely aligned its defense policy with the United States, Soviet-Japanese relations correspondingly deteriorated. Normal channels of communication were broken off. As the Japanese government elevated the Northern Territories issue to the forefront of Soviet-Japanese relations, Soviet criticism of Japan escalated. By the time Mikhail Gorbachev took power in 1985, Soviet-Japanese relations had sunk to their lowest point.