Soviet part of the governing bodies of the Chinese Eastern railway and Northern Manchuria in 1925–1931: was the region a soviet colony?
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-35-43
EDN: KWZGPG
Abstract
Studying the influence of one country on a particular region of another state, as well as determining the nature of existing relations, is not a trivial task. The focus of this article is precisely such a plot — the practice of managerial activities of the Soviet part of the Board and Management of the ChineseEastern railway, which is often seen as a manifestation of the imperial nature of the USSR's behavior towards China, and the territory of its presence – Manchuria – as the place of failed Soviet colonization. The study examines the scale of the Soviet presence in the specified region in general and on the road in particular, the attempts made by the USSR to spread communist ideology through the use of the Chinese-Eastern railway and the opposition of the Chinese authorities to this, as well as the main features of the economic policy implemented by the administration of the enterprise. It is concluded whether the road is a conduit for the exploitation of Northern Manchuria in the interests of the Soviet state.
Keywords
Chinese-Eastern railway,
Manchuria,
colonialism,
Republic of China,
Beijing Agreement of 1924,
Soviet-Chinese conflict of 1929.
Supporting agencies: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation within the framework of the Scientific Project no. 23-48-00004 “Chinese-Eastern Railway as a trans-border socio-cultural system: studying its history, reconstructing and modeling mechanisms of cultural heritage protection”.
About the Author
D. A. Maliuchenko
Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MALIUCHENKO Dmitry Alexeyevich, Research Engineer at the Institute of History
Saint Petersburg, Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya St., 7–9, 199034
AuthorID (RSCI): 1008161
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Maliuchenko D.A. Soviet part of the governing bodies of the Chinese Eastern railway and Northern Manchuria in 1925–1931: was the region a soviet colony? Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(4):35-43. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-35-43. EDN: KWZGPG
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