ABSTRACT
The struggle for power in the Civil War and Allied Intervention that followed the Russian Revolution assumed a particularly intense nature in the Far East. A significant contribution to the ultimate Soviet success was made by the short-lived Far Eastern Republic.
The USA emerged from the Versailles and Washington Conferences as the leading world power, even if its policy of the ‘Open Door’ was to some extent restricted by Japan and Soviet Russia. Conflict was already forecast by some commentators.
The image of the culture of the 1920s as one long Charleston dance was reflected in the cosmopolitan city Harbin, which also exhibited some of the features of Weimar Germany, including a lively press and ideological discussion.
