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STalin very craftily kept peace with Japan even tho he sort of promised the Allies to go to war with them.... he only declared war at the very end of the conflict to gain territory in Manchuria and regain some lost resources. It is a gray area for western historians and I would welcome knowning more about it.
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There is no enigma. Soviet participation in war with Japan after achiving victory over Germany, which was concidered by Allies as principal goal of the war was negotiated at the Great Three conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. I think there should be a lot books in those conferences.
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But due to the purges there was literaly no way to crew those huge ships successfully and they were usually used as mobile batteries when there was amunition for their guns and fuel and parts to make them run.
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Actully, there is little connection between purges and Gamgut class way of deploying as well as defeats of 1941 as it has many reasons. The Gaguts were designed to be mobile batteries to enforce mine and artillery barrage planed by Russian Imperial Naval Staff for defence of the capital in St.Petersburg during WW1. In similar role they were used after the Germans had locked Soviet Fleet in the eastern part of Baltic sea by mines. Concidering that they had no place to sail secured from mines and their ammo which was produced during WW1 and stored in Kronstadt - the base were they have spent the whole war, the only problem was German dive bombers.
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I dont know what happened to those wandering Czarist Fleet units but it was a remarkable time.
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They were disbanded and ships scrapped for depts during 1920s after France has offivialy recognised Soviet Russia.