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Jonathan Clements was formerly a Visiting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is a historian specialising in the Far East, whose recent books include The Emperor's Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals; Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion, and Japan at War in the Pacific. British-born, he is now a citizen of Finland, and has also written a book about his adopted country, An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland (which he is currently updating for the paperback), as well as an acclaimed biography of its wartime leader Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy. Most accounts of Mannerheim concentrate on his battles in the 1940s, when he led Finland against the incursions of the Soviet Union, but Clements's book focussed instead on his early career as a Finn in the Tsar's military service, fighting in the Russo-Japanese War and conducting a two-year uncover spying mission in China, posing as a Swedish anthropologist. For reasons nobody quite comprehe

After a bit of a hiatus, I bring you a wonderful conversation I had back in April with Sean Guillory, Ph.D., host of the SRB Podcast. We covered various topics about Russia which include a history of US-Russia relations, Russian/Soviet history, what the West gets wrong about Russia, and where contemporary Russia finds itself today. To learn more about Sean Guillory, Ph.D, and his work, please see links below: Website: https://srbpodcast.org/ Apple Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seans-russia-blog/id597948126?ls=1 Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ErfCLcdZ9xbaLwrFcXHPC Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sean-guillory-3 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seansrussiablog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/seansrussiablog Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/