The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950: The Arduous Road to the Alliance: The Arduous Road to the Alliance

by Dieter Heinzig

Overview

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 book focuses mainly on Communist China's relationship with Moscow after the conclusion of the treaty between the Soviet Union and Kuomingtang China in 1945, up until the signing of the treaty between Moscow and the Chinese Communist Party in 1950. It also looks at China's relationship with Moscow from 1920 to 1945, as well as developments from 1950 to the present. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317454489
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/18/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	488
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Preface; Chapter 1 Background; Chapter 2 Moscow’s Two-Faced Policy Toward China Between 1945 and 1948; Chapter 3 1949; Chapter 4 Stalin and Mao Zedong in Moscow; Chapter 5 Conclusions and Prospects;