Sovietization of the Russian Far East (1918–1922) and Korean guerrillas in Manchuria

The article is devoted to the process of formation of the anti-Japanese Communist organizations in the parts of Manchuria adjacent to the Russian Far East. This process was heavily influenced by the civil war and the fight against the Japanese invasion to the East of Russian Empire. The emergence of the Soviet Russia on the political map of the world was the example of successful political transformation for colonized state including Korea. Korean nationalists in Manchuria who were seeking to free Korea from the colonial oppression of Japan considered Russia, fighting against the Japanese intervention in the Far East, to be their natural ally. The turn to the ideology of Communism was for some nationalists a kind of inevitable reckoning for the service of their mighty ally, for others it was just a natural coalition with ideologically close Russian Bolsheviks.