title: Introduction
abstract: and farms; the dislocations both physical and emotional of populations; and fi nally, the ongoing struggles over the memory and meaning of these cataclysmic events.With the possible exception of China, in the twentieth century no other country has experienced these consequences more than Russia and the Soviet Union did.It is worth reviewing the litany of Russia's militarized twentieth century.Before the fall of the tsarist regime, Russians fought a war in the Far East with the Japanese.Soon aft 
journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks