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  • The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard

    Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

    by Daria Arincheva, Alexander Pantsov ...
    Translated by Steven Levine ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.Including analysis of previously unknown documentary materials from the Bolshevik Party and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927

    by Alexander Pantsov ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Based mainly on unknown Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this book analyses the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception in China. Issues include the role of the three Bolshevik leaders, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in trying to lead the Chinese Communists to victory, the real nature of the Trotsky-Stalin split in the Comintern, and a dramatic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Mao

    The Real Story

    by Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China.Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot.Pantsov ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • China 1945

    Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

    by Richard Bernstein ...
    A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relationsAs 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which American money and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Victorious in Defeat

    The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

    by Alexander V. Pantsov ...
    Translated by Steven I. Levine ...
    An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figuresChiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Affirmative Action Empire

    Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

    by Terry Martin ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    "Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful, detailed analysis of a problem that Soviet leaders grappled with throughout the twentieth century. As he points out, it was a problem that eventually helped to usher in the end of the USSR."— Amanda Wood Aucoin, New Zealand Slavonic JournalThe Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Shanghai Sanctuary

    Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II

    by Bei Gao ...
    When the world closed its borders to desperate Jews fleeing Europe during World War II, Shanghai became an unexpected last haven for the refugees. An open port that could be entered without visas, this unique city under Western and Japanese control sheltered tens of thousands of Jews. Shanghai Sanctuary is the first major study to examine the Chinese Nationalist government's policy towards the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Red at Heart

    How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution

    by Elizabeth McGuire ...
    Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

    by Charles K. Armstrong ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion

    Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao

    by Joseph Torigian ...
    How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores“Joseph Torigian’s stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study. It fundamentally undermines what political scientists have presumed to be the way Chinese Communist and Soviet politics operate.”—Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

    Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

    by Shen Zhihua ...
    Translated by Neil Silver ...
    Series series Cold War History
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War

    by Taras Kuzio ...
    Series series Europa Country Perspectives
    This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Europe’s de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia’s obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.The volume provides a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD