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Contents Abbreviations Transliteration Preface 1. Background: The Chinese Communist Party's Emancipation from Moscow The CCP on the Comintern Leash (1921-1935) Mao Zedong's Rise to Party Leader: Prerequisite for Emancipation The "Sinification of Marxism" as Ideological Challenge to Moscow The CCP and the Soviet Union During the Sino-Japanese War: Allegiance with Reservations The Soviet Union, CCP, Kuomintang, and the United Front Against Japan: Origin of a Concept Soviet Go-Betweens in Yenan: Comrades or Enemies? Moscow's One-Sided China Policy During the Sino-Japanese War No Soviet Weapons for the Chinese Comrades Conflict Between Moscow and Yenan over Policy Toward the KMT and Japan During the Sino-Japanese War Beginnings of a CCP Foreign Policy: Flirting with the USA at the End of the War Interim Conclusions 2. Moscow's Two-Faced China Policy between 1945 and 1948 The Soviet Union, United States, Kuomintang, and CCP at the End of the Second World War The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance of August 14, 1945: Moscow's Grap for Czarist Privileges The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance of August 14, 1945: Moscow's Betrayal of the Chinese Communists Moscow's Double Game in Manchuria From Truce to Civil War in China: The Four Protagonists' Actions The CCP's Strategic Leaning to the Soviet Side Moscow Holds Back: Mao Zedong's Unsuccessful Insistence on a Meeting with Stalin 3. 1949: The Pivotal Year on the Road to the Alliance Rethinking in Moscow: Is the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party Imminent? Affront to the CCP: Ambassador Roshchin Follows the KMT Government to Canton Moscow and the CCP at the Beginning of 1949: Creating political consensus on the KMT The First Top Level Secret Meeting: Mikoyan in Xibaipo (February 1949) Ivan Kovalev: Stalin's Man with Mao Zedong The CCP's Policy Toward the West and the Role of the Soviet Union: Beginnings of a Strategic Relationship Was Stalin Seeking to Divide China into Two Parts? The Second Top Level Secret Meeting: Liu Shaoqi in Moscow (Summer 1949) The CCP's Tactical Exploratory Contacts with the USA and Great Britain and the Role of the Soviet Union Establishment of Diplomatic Relations: Problems with the Soviet Ambassador Irritations in Anticipation of Mao's Moscow Trip 4. Stalin and Mao Zedong in Moscow: The Breakthrough for the Alliance Mao's Trip to Moscow: Motives, Planning, and Arrival Cool Reception in Moscow Stalin takes a Firm Stand: The December 16 Talk "Stewing in His Own Juices at the Dacha": Act I Stalin's Seventeenth Birthday and Mao's Role Stalin Makes Mao Wait: The December 24 Talk Kovalev's Denunciatory Report to Stalin "Stewing in His Own Juices at the Dacha": Act II Mao's "TASS Interview" The Breakthrough Stalin's Advances to Mao Zedong The USA: Invisible Partner at the Negotiating Table Chinese Requests for Aid Preparations for the Negotiations Zhou Enlai's Negotiating Team Setting the Stage for the Negotiations: The January 22 Talk Survey of the Negotiating Process Negotiations for the Agreements Signed on February 14, 1950 Intercultural Irritations Signing the Treaty on February 14, 1950, and Mao Zedong's Return Trip Negotiations for the Agreements Signed in March and April, 1950 5. Conclusions and Prospects Appendix Document 1. Soviet Draft on the Questions Concerning the Chinese Changchun Railroad, Port Arthur, and Dairen of January 5, 1950 Document 2. Soviet Draft on the Questions Concerning Dairen and Port Arthur of January 9, 1950 Document 3. Soviet Draft on the Questions Concerning Dairen and Port Arthur of January 10, 1950 Document 4. Soviet Draft on the Questions Concerning Port Arthur and Dairen of January 12, 1950 Document 5. Soviet Draft on the Questions Concerning Port Arthur and Dairen of January 16, 1950 Document 6a. First Variant: Soviet Draft of a Protocol Confirming the Validity of the Agreement on the Chinese Changchun Railroad of January16, 1950 Document 6b. Second Variant: Soviet draft of a Declaration Confirming the Certification of the Validity of the Agreement on the Chinese Changchun Railroad of January 16, 1950 Document 7. Soviet Draft of a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Aid of January 22, 1950 Document 8. Soviet Draft of a Protocol Concerning the Agreement on Port Arthur and Dairen of January 22, 1950 Document 9. Soviet Draft of a Protocol Concerning the Agreement on the Chinese Changchun Railroad of January 22, 1950 Document 10. Chinese Draft of a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Aid of January 24, 1950 Document 11. Soviet Draft of an Agreement on Port Arthur, Dairen, and the Chinese Changchun Railroad of January 29, 1950 Document 12. Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Aid, Signed on February 14, 1950 Document 13. Agreement on the Chinese Changchun Railroad, Port Arthur, and Dairen, Signed on February 14, 1950 Document 14. Agreement on the Granting of a Credit to the People's Republic of China, signed on February 14, 1950 Document 15. Chinese Draft of a Secret Agreement on the Soviet Specialists' Working Conditions in China of March 22, 1950 Notes Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Soviet Union Foreign relations China, China Foreign relations Soviet Union, Soviet Union Foreign relations 1945-1991, China Foreign relations 1912-1949