Uncertain Partners (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sergei N. Goncharov
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1945-1953
- Setting: China, the Soviet Union, and Korea
- Principal Characters: Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Ivan V. Kovalev, Liu Shaoqi, Shi Zhe, Zhou Enlai, Gao Gang, Chiang Kai-shek, Harry S Truman
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Dictators, Communism or communists, World War II, China or Chinese people, Korea or Koreans, Soviet Union or Soviets, Korean War, Geopolitics
- Locales: Soviet Union, China, Korea
Uncertain Partners is the impressive result of an outstanding collaborative effort by a Russian, an American, and a Chinese researcher. Sergei Goncharov, John Lewis, and Xue Litai each bring special knowledge and cultural understanding to their fascinating story of how Stalin and Mao forged an alliance of their two Communist countries in the winter of 1950, the so-called Sino-Soviet Treaty. One of the major revelations of their book is its well-documented demonstration of how both Stalin and Mao were manipulated by a third player, North Korea’s dictator Kim Il Sung. By playing...
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