The Journey of a Great Leader: Mao Zedong in the Winding Development of Sino-Soviet Relations

Author: Zhou Wenqi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Based on extensive historical records, this book traces the life journey of Mao Zedong's revolution, integrating popular and academic perspectives to elaborate on the complex and winding relationship between Mao and the Comintern and the Soviet Union. Mao's most outstanding contribution to the Chinese revolution was his correct and vivid integration of the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with the specific practice of the Chinese revolution, solving a series of problems in the Chinese revolution. Through the interconnected aspects of Mao, the Communist Party of China, the Comintern, and the Soviet Union, this book provides readers with a new perspective from a broader scope and deeper level to study the political activities of Mao and the formation and development of Mao Zedong Thought. Especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's relationship with the Soviet Union was a key factor in China's foreign relations in the 1950s and 1960s, and the relationship between the two Communist parties was at its core. The ups and downs and joys and sorrows of the relationship between the two countries and parties became an indispensable and important topic for studying the history of the Communist Party of China in the socialist period. Following the chronological development of history, this book divides the China-Soviet relationship after the founding of the People's Republic of China into three stages: comprehensive friendly cooperation, the transition from friendly cooperation to severe deterioration, and efforts to eliminate the threat of Soviet security to China. From the aspects of ideology, national interests, and foreign strategy, it systematically examines and organizes the important events that occurred during this period. From this, one can see Mao, as a great Marxist, repeatedly and persistently thinking, exploring, and solving a series of fundamental issues in the Chinese revolution, construction, and the international communist movement in extremely complex domestic and foreign environments and situations.