Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Soviet soldiers with captured Kuomintang banners.
Date July 22 – September 9, 1929 Location Inner Manchuria Result Provisions of 1924 agreement were upheld.
Belligerents
Republic of China	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Zhang Xueliang	Vasily Blyukher
Strength
100,000	40,000
Casualties and losses
7 ships lost 2,000 killed 1,000 wounded more than 8,550 prisoners	281 killed 729 wounded

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.

See also

• Kumul Rebellion
• Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang
• Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)
• Ili Rebellion

Bibliography

• Felix Patrikeeff, Russian Politics in Exile: The Northeast Asian Balance of Power, 1924-1931 Basingstoke 2002, ISBN 0-333-73018-6
• George Alexander Lensen, The Damned Inheritance. The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Crises. 1924-1935, Ann Arbor 1974

External links

• Wang Lianjie. "Zhongdong Railway Incident" by Wang Lianjie
• Sino-Soviet 1929 conflict at AxisHistory forum (photographs, literature)

Time Magazine

• "C.E.R. Seized" (Jul 22, 1929)
• "Growling & Hissing" (Jul 29, 1929)
• "Imposing Peace" (Aug 5, 1929)
• "Growing Graver" (Aug 26, 1929)
• "Blucher v. Chiang" (Sept 2, 1929)

• "Peace" (Sept 9, 1929)
• "Manchuria in the Vise" (Dec 2, 1929)
• "'Not One Square Inch!'" (Dec 9, 1929)
• "400 Million Humiliations" (Dec 16, 1929)