Sino–Soviet conflict (1929)

Sino–Soviet conflict (1929)
Soviet soldiers with captured Kuomintang banners.
Date July 22 - September 9, 1929 Location Inner Manchuria Result Decisive Soviet victory. Provisions of 1924 agreement were upheld.
Belligerents
Republic of China	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Zhang Xueliang	Vasily Blyukher
Strength
300,000	18,521
Casualties and losses
7 ships lost 2,000 killed 1,000 wounded more than 8,550 prisoners[citation needed]	281 killed 729 wounded[citation needed]

The Sino–Soviet conflict of 1929 (1929年 中東路事件) was a minor armed conflict between the Soviet Union and Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China over the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway.

When the Chinese seized the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway in 1929, swift Soviet military intervention quickly put an end to the crisis and forced the Chinese to accept restoration of joint Soviet-Chinese administration of the railway.

Bibliography

• Felix Patrikeeff, Russian Politics in Exile: The Northeast Asian Balance of Power, 1924-1931 Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 0-333-73018-6
• George Alexander Lensen, The Damned Inheritance. The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Crises. 1924-1935

External links

• Sino-Soviet 1929 conflict discussion on AxisHistory forum (photographs, literature)

Time magazine coverage

• From Jul. 22, 1929 Time Magazine, C. E. R. Seized
• From Jul. 29, 1929 Time Magazine, Growling & Hissing
• From Aug. 5, 1929 Time Magazine, Imposing Peace
• From Aug. 26, 1929 Time Magazine, Growing Graver
• From Sep. 2, 1929 Time Magazine , Blucher v. Chiang
• From Sep. 9, 1929 Time Magazine, Peace
• From the Dec. 2, 1929 TIME magazine, Manchuria in the Vise
• From the Dec. 9, 1929 TIME magazine Not One Square Inch!"
• From the Dec. 16, 1929 TIME magazine, 400 Million Humiliations