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The Soviet Union's Secret Diplomacy Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1925

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Bruce A. Elleman
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Following the october revolution, the Soviet Union regained majority control over the strategically located Chinese Eastern Railway, which ran through Manchuria, by signing two previously unpublished secret agreements: the first with the Beijing government on May 31, 1924, and the second with Zhang Zuolin's government in Manchuria on September 20, 1924. These secret agreements were signed despite the Soviet government's repeated promise that it would never resort to secret diplomacy. The Soviet Union also renewed control over the Russian-built Chinese Eastern Railway despite a 1919 Soviet manifesto promising that this railway would be turned over to China without compensation. To consolidate Soviet power over this railway, the USSR then signed the January 20, 1925, convention with Japan that recognized Japan's authority over the South Manchurian Railway in return for Japan's acquiescence to full Soviet authority over the Chinese Eastern Railway.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 459 - 486
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994

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