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The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950: The Arduous Road to the Alliance The Arduous Road to the Alliance
By Dieter Heinzig
Copyright 1998
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Background: The Chinese Communist Party's Emancipation from Moscow 2. Moscow's Two-Faced China Policy between 1945 and 1948 3. 1949: The Pivotal Year on the Road to the Alliance 4. Stalin and Mao Zedong in Moscow: The Breakthrough for the Alliance 5. Conclusions and Prospects Appendix
Biography
Dieter Heinzig completed a doctorate in East European history, Chinese history, and public law at Bochum University, Germany. Until his retirement in 1997, he did research at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne. He was deputy director and head of the Asia Department of the Federal Institute.
