The Soviet Union and communist China, 1945-1950 : the arduous road to the alliance / Dieter Heinzig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinzig, Dieter.

Standardized Title:

Sowjetunion und das kommunistiche China 1945-1950. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.

Soviet Union.

International relations.

China.

China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.

China--Foreign relations--1912-1949.

Physical Description:

xix, 531 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Drawing on a wealth of new sources, this work documents the evolving relationship between Moscow and Peking in the Twentieth Century. Using newly-available Russian and Chinese archival documents, memoirs written in the 1980s and 1990s, and interviews with high-ranking Soviet and Chinese eyewitnesses, the book provides the basis for a new interpretation of this relationship and a glimpse of previously unknown events that shaped the Sino-Soviet alliance. An appendix contains translated Chinese and Soviet documents - many of which are being published for the first time. The author reevaluates existing sources and literature on the topic, and demonstrates that the alliance was reached despite disagreements and distrust on both sides and was not an inevitable conclusion. He also shows that the relationship between the two Communist parties was based on national interest politics, and not on similar ideological convictions.

Contents:

Background : the emancipation of the Chinese Communist Party from Moscow

Moscow's two-faced policy toward China between 1945 and 1948

1949 : the pivotal year on the road to the alliance

Stalin and Mao Zedong in Moscow : the breakthrough to the alliance

Conclusions and prospects.

Notes:

"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-520) and index.

ISBN:

0765607859

OCLC:

51738072