ABSTRACT
The Japanese assault on Manchuria in September 1931 brought the Far East threat and the prospect of a two-front war in the future more clearly into focus for the party elite, and especially for Stalin. These encounters, in which The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army troops were both directly and indirectly involved, were also beneficial to the Red Army's innovation. Military engagements in the Far East between 1929 and 1932 affected the Red Army in a number of ways. The most immediate Soviet response to the seizure of the railway was the War Commissariat's order, to concentrate units of the Siberian Military District on the Manchurian border in both the Dauri and Nikolsk-Ussuriiskii regions. The seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and subsequent military clashes on the Chinese-Soviet border were extremely well publicized in the party and military press during the months of the conflict.
