The Treaty of Portsmouth Revoked: An Unnoticed Anniversary

... subsequent revenge are still relevant today. Daniil Rastegaev: “The Global Anti-Fascist War”: Memory of the Second World War in Non-Western Countries The events of 1904-1905 in the Far East are commonly considered among the darkest chapters of our history. Many who lived at the time and observed those events perceived the defeat as a symbol of Russia's weakness and backwardness. Setbacks at the front were fuelled by the revolutionary events engulfing the country. Soviet historiography of the Russo-Japanese War was merciless: the defeat was the result of the short-sighted policies of a corrupt tsarist regime and a harbinger of its catastrophic performance in World War I. Isolated heroic events were singled out from the war. The battle between the ...