Mao Stalin And The Korean War

Author : Zhihua Shen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415516457

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Mao, Stalin and the Korean War by Zhihua Shen Pdf

This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. 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. 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. 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.

Author : Serge? Nikolaevich Goncharov,John Wilson Lewis,Litai Xue
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804721157

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Uncertain Partners by Serge? Nikolaevich Goncharov,John Wilson Lewis,Litai Xue Pdf

Using major new sources, including cables between Mao and Stalin and interviews with key actors, this book tells the inside story of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.

Author : Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Goncharov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1036935093

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Uncertain Partners by Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Goncharov Pdf

Author : Jian Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070032953

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The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China's Entry Into the Korean War by Jian Chen Pdf

"With the support of recently-released Chinese sources, this paper will try to shed some novel lights on (1) the making the Sino-Soviet Alliance, (2) the Sino-Soviet connection with the outbreak of the Korean War, and (3) contacts between China and the Soviet Union during the days when the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] leadership made the final decision to enter the Korean War"--Page 1.

Author : Richard C. Thornton
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042604911

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Odd Man Out by Richard C. Thornton Pdf

Thus, the strife between North Koreans and South Koreans was secondary, and the war itself was avoidable."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kathryn Weathersby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cold War
ISBN : IND:30000078247313

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Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-1950 by Kathryn Weathersby Pdf

Author : Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549943

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Fearing the Worst by Samuel F. Wells Jr. Pdf

After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the first six months of the Korean War drove both superpowers to intensify their defense buildup. American leaders feared the worst-case scenario—that Stalin was prepared to start World War III—and raced to build up strategic arms, resulting in a struggle they did not seek out or intend. Their decisions stemmed from incomplete interpretations of Soviet and Chinese goals, especially the belief that China was a Kremlin puppet. Yet Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il-sung all had their own agendas, about which the United States lacked reliable intelligence. Drawing on newly available documents and memoirs—including previously restricted archives in Russia, China, and North Korea—Wells analyzes the key decision points that changed the course of the war. He also provides vivid profiles of the central actors as well as important but lesser known figures. Bringing together studies of military policy and diplomacy with the roles of technology, intelligence, and domestic politics in each of the principal nations, Fearing the Worst offers a new account of the Korean War and its lasting legacy.

Author : Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231553674

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A Misunderstood Friendship by Zhihua Shen,Yafeng Xia Pdf

Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence. In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.

Author : Alan J. Levine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786420889

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Stalin's Last War by Alan J. Levine Pdf

Often referred to as "The Forgotten War," the Korean War was the only post-World War II combat between major powers. According to evidence provided in this study, it was also a crucial episode of the Cold War--more crucial, perhaps, than the war in Vietnam. This military and political history of the Korean War endeavors to give a fresh and less than fashionable account of the war. Utilizing both immediately postwar impressions and newly available evidence from Communist sources, it places the events in Korea into the larger framework of the early 1950s period of the Cold War. Beginning chapters discuss the escalation of early Cold War-era world events, from the final days of World War II to the first days of the Korean War, and detail the inevitability of Western intervention in the Korean conflict. The chapters that follow supply a broad account of the military aspect of the war, focusing on its "grand strategy," what is now known of the Communist side in Korea, the problems and achievements of the South Korean forces, and the often underestimated war in the air. Considerable attention is also given to matters in Europe and elsewhere, such as German rearmament and the Japanese peace treaty, that are revealed to have been not far removed from Korea. The author espouses several original theories regarding Stalin's interpretation of the Korean conflict as a preliminary phase of World War III and the probability that the Communists did intend to extend the war beyond both the confines of Korea and the armistice negotiations of 1951. Concluding commentary attributes the end of the first phase of the Cold War to the Korean armistice, but the nature of the remaining phases to the polarization of powers that was intensified by the fight for ideological dominance in Korea.

Author : Jian Chen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898901

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Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen Pdf

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.

Author : Shu Guang Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037850933

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Mao's Military Romanticism by Shu Guang Zhang Pdf

"Breaks new ground in analyzing China's decision to enter the war and its subsequent struggle to hold its own against the world's most powerful nation. Should stand for some time as the standard comprehensive treatment of China in the Korean War". -- William Stueck, author of The Korean War. "Offers provocative insights into Mao's thinking about strategy, tactics, and the human costs of warfare. Highly recommended". -- John Lewis Gaddis, author of The Long Peace.

Author : Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451654486

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Mao by Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine Pdf

"Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.

Author : Kathryn Weathersby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cold War
ISBN : IND:30000062166727

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"Should We Fear This?" by Kathryn Weathersby Pdf

Author : Wada Haruki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538116425

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The Korean War by Wada Haruki Pdf

This classic history of the Korean War—from its origins through the armistice—is now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introduction that considers the heightened danger of a new Northeast Asian war as Trump and Kim Jong-un escalate their rhetoric. Wada Haruki, one of the world’s leading scholars of the war, draws on archival and other primary sources in Russia, China, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to provide the first full understanding of the Korean War as an international conflict from the perspective of all the actors involved. Wada traces the North Korean invasion of South Korea in riveting detail, providing new insights into the behavior of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee. He also provides new insights into the behavior of Communist leaders in Korea, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, and their rivals in other nations. He traces the course of the war from its origins in the North and South Korean leaders’ failed attempts to unify their country by force, ultimately escalating into a Sino-American war on the Korean Peninsula. Although sixty-five years have passed since the armistice, the Korean conflict has never really ended. Tensions remain high on the peninsula as Washington and Pyongyang, as well as Seoul and Pyongyang, continue to face off. It is even more timely now to address the origins of the Korean War, the nature of the confrontation, and the ways in which it affects the geopolitical landscape of Northeast Asia and the Pacific region. With his unmatched ability to draw on sources from every country involved, Wada paints a rich and full portrait of a conflict that continues to generate controversy.

Author : Jian Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0231100256

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China's Road to the Korean War by Jian Chen Pdf

Through the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings, this book aims to discover China and the USSR's roles in the outbreak of the Korean conflict.