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Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 24 dated maps and 73 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Tokugawa shogunate and sakoku
CHAPTER 1 · 1842
Black Ships and the opening of Japan
CHAPTER 2 · 1859
Meiji Restoration and Boshin War
CHAPTER 3 · 1868
Early Meiji reforms (1868–77)
CHAPTER 4 · 1877
Meiji Constitution and modernisation
CHAPTER 5 · 1889
Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars
CHAPTER 6 · 1910
Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation
CHAPTER 7 · 1980
Perestroika and glasnost
CHAPTER 8 · 1988
Collapse of the Soviet Union
CHAPTER 9 · 1991
Shock therapy in Russia
CHAPTER 10 · 1993
Oligarchs and the First Chechen War
CHAPTER 11 · 1996
Meiji and post-Soviet Russia compared
CHAPTER 12 · 2000

Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia maps by year

1840AUG 1842MAR 1854JUL 1859SEP 1864JUN 1868AUG 1869AUG 1871APR 1877FEB 1889NOV 1895JUL 1898NOV 1905AUG 1910OCT 1964JAN 1980FEB 1988DEC 1989OCT 1990DEC 1991OCT 1993DEC 1994AUG 1996FEB 2000

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Battles, events and sites of memory

● Abolition of the han system◆ Afghan deaths in the Soviet–Afghan War● Annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom◆ April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi◆ Ashio copper mine pollution● August Coup● Baikal–Amur Mainline● Baltic Way✕ Battle of Aizu✕ Battle of Bendery◆ Battle of Grozny✕ Battle of Hakodate✕ Battle of Pyongyang✕ Battle of Sekigahara✕ Battle of Shiroyama✕ Battle of Toba–Fushimi✕ Battle of Tsushima● Belovezha Accords✕ Bombardment of Kagoshima◆ Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis● Charter Oath◆ Chernobyl disaster✕ Chichibu Incident● Congress of People’s Deputies election● Dejima● Dōjima Rice Exchange● Emperor Kōmei rejects the Harris Treaty✕ Fall of Sukhumi● Fall of the Berlin Wall◆ First Nagorno-Karabakh War◆ Great Tenmei famine● Hakodate treaty port● Harris Treaty● Hibiya riots● Hokkaido colonisation and the Ainu✕ Invasion of Dagestan● Iwakura Mission◆ January Events in Vilnius● Japanese annexation of Korea◆ Japanese invasion of Taiwan● Jeltoqsan protests in Alma-Ata● Khasavyurt Accord◆ Korean righteous armies● Meiji Constitution● Norilsk Nickel loans-for-shares auction● Oil price collapse● Perry Expedition◆ Port Arthur massacre● Resignation of Boris Yeltsin◆ Russian apartment bombings✕ Russian constitutional crisis● Russian miners’ rail blockades● Russian price liberalisation✕ Saga Rebellion● Samotlor oil field● Shimoda treaty port✕ Shimonoseki campaign◆ Shrinking of the Aral Sea✕ Siege of Grozny✕ Siege of Kumamoto Castle✕ Siege of Port Arthur✕ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan● Soviet miners’ strikes● Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan◆ Tajik Civil War● Tatarstan–Russia power-sharing treaty● Tomioka Silk Mill● Treaty of Ganghwa● Treaty of Kanagawa● Treaty of Nanking● Uralmash voucher privatisation● Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia● Yukos loans-for-shares auction

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