ABSTRACT
In 1929 K. Voroshilov had had his way and the newly-created Special Far Eastern Army, built up with reinforcements from European Russia, administered its sharp military lesson in the brief campaign on the Manchurian frontiers. V. K. Blyukher remained at the post of Soviet military commander in the Soviet Far East, as economic and military power grew rapidly in an area which had proved to be in a previous time the Russian Achilles heel. Stalin, in so far that he had been in command of the situation, conducted in the Far East and China a political strategy the mainspring of which was hostility to British imperialism. From this fixation, allied with a pro-German policy in the west, Stalin aimed at a balance of power favourable to Soviet interests. Voroshilov was in the Soviet Far East, attending the manœuvres of the Special Far Eastern Army, and at which time he presented Blyukher with the Order of Lenin.
