Cold War History

<p>This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.</p><p>This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non-heroic accounts of the Korean War.The author combined information detailed in Soviet-era diplomatic documents (released after the collapse of the Soviet Union) with Chinese memoirs, official document collections and scholarly monographs, in order to present a non-ideological, realpolitik account of the relations, motivations and actions among three Communist actors: Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung.</p><p>This new translation represents a revisionist perspective on trilateral Communist alliance relations during the Korean War, shedding new light on the origins of the Sino-Soviet split and the rather distant relations between China and North Korea. It features a critical introduction to Shen''s work and the text is based on original archival research not found in earlier books in English.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of Communist China, Stalinist Russia, the Korean War, Cold War Studies and International History in general.</p>