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Posted on 07/31/2025 12:36:38 AM PDT by Cronos
Russo-Japanese War, (1904–05), military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia, thereby becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
...In the 1850s, Russian towns and settlements appeared along the left bank of the Amur (Heilong) River. The Chinese government made repeated protests but, because of its ongoing struggle against Great Britain and France and the internal turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion, was unable to resist Russian pressure. Finally, by the Treaty of Aigun (1858, confirmed by the Beijing Convention, 1860), China ceded to Russia all the territory north of the Amur, together with the maritime region east of the Ussuri (Wusuli) River from the mouth of the Amur to the boundary of Korea
...Japan, with its modernized army and navy, at once won a series of striking victories against the Chinese, who, in the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895), ceded to Japan the Kwantung (Liaodong) Peninsula, on which Port Arthur (now Dalian) stands, together with Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (P’eng-hu) Islands, and agreed to pay a heavy indemnity.
...Rozhestvensky made for Vladivostok via the Tsushima Strait. Tōgō lay in wait for him off the southern Korean coast near Pusan (Busan), and, on May 27, as the Russian fleet approached, he attacked. The Japanese ships were superior in speed and armament, and, in the course of the two-day battle, two-thirds of the Russian fleet was sunk, six ships were captured, four reached Vladivostok, and six took refuge in neutral ports. It was a dramatic and decisive defeat; after voyaging seven months to within a few hundred miles of its destination, the Baltic Fleet was shattered
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1. This showed the Asian leaders from Sun yat in China to Nehru in India, that western powers could be defeated. After a century of defeats, Asia began its renewal.
2. This led to the 1905 Russian revolution. If the tsar had accepted long term the results of the 1905 revolution there would have been no 1917 revolution and no Bolshevik takeover. Instead, he acquiesced with the 1905 demands and the a few years later reversed al, of it, abolishing parliament, leaving the people no recourse but revolution
Russian Empire 1904-1905: European power, Western power. In possession of Ukraine, Kyiv. 🤔🧐
And almost 104 years since the newly reborn Poland defeated Russia in 1921, and turned down taking all of Belarus and half of Ukraine at the Riga peace talk. Without Western allies covering for Russian backwardness, Russia can and did lose wars to smaller countries.
Just disl back 7p years before that and the Russian empire owned Alaska and parts of the USA west coast.
So you think Zlaska should be returned to Russia?
And this took place just 41 years after Admiral Perry “opened” Japan to modernization.
“So you think [A]laska should be returned to Russia?”
LOL no thanks
Just interesting to see the Russian sovereign being referred to as a Western power/European power. Which it presumably currently regards itself as being, once again.
One problem among many was that Russia only had WW1 dreadnaught battle ships while Japan just built modern battleships. No match.
Another problem was that Russia had to send a single battleship all the way from the Baltic IIRC.
“One problem among many was that Russia only had WW1 dreadnaught battle ships while Japan just built modern battleships. No match.”
The war was in 1905, 9 years before world war one.
Thanks for the heads-up. Love the little "nooks and crannies" of history.
They can have Lisa.
Russia got their revenge at Khalkin Gol in 1939. It totally changed the direction of WWII, and yet few know about the battle.
Once the US gained Hawaii and The Philippines, we were on a collision course with Imperial Japan, it was just a matter of when.
The Czars literally thought of themselves in relation to Russia as the owners of a large plantation, with literally everyone else in it—including the nobility—as their personal property/slaves with no right to political power whatsoever. The nobility often referred to themselves as the Czar’s slaves.
This way of thinking was the direct result of Russia having been conquered by the Mongols, and run by them as a purely arbitrary Asiatic despotism, for several hundred years. Moscow’s czars became the rulers because they were successful in toadying up to their Mongol overlords, and took over their authority as the Mongol empire collapsed.
Czar Nicky started WWI by mobilizing. His Cousin, The Kaiser begged him not to, because The Kaiser knew he couldn’t call off his generals, if Russia persisted in their mobilization.
Many Jewish leaders in the West worked against the Tsar, some financing the Tsar's enemies, some condemning the Tsar in the Western press, some petitioning Western politicians to oppose the Tsar.
Thanks Cronos.
OOPS as it was pointed out I was wrong about the years involved but the Japanese did have an enormous advantage with their much newer navy.
True. After that, the russians didn’t fear japanese invasion so could move Siberian troops to fight in the European theatre
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