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Cold War and Revolution : Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946 / Odd Arne Westad.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231906708
  • 9780231879903
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Terminology -- Introduction -- China (Map) -- 1. Yalta and the Search for Stability -- 2. The Jiang-Stalin Pact and the Collapse of Great Power Cooperation -- 3. The Seventh Party Congress and the Origins of CCP Foreign Policy -- 4. The Race to Shenyang: Chinese Politics and the Soviet Occupation of the Northeast -- North China (Map) -- 5. Allies and Enemies: Mao, Jiang, and the U.S. Intervention in North China -- 6. The Origins of the Marshall Mission -- 7. The Soviet Withdrawal and the Coming of the Civil War -- Conclusion: Revolt, Intervention, and Cold War -- A Word on Chinese Archives and Materials -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Describes the way political development in China influenced the diplomatic and military rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union in East Asia at the end of World War II and the effect Soviet-American rivalry had on the struggle for political power in China. Uses a four-cornered pattern of analysis, giving equal importance to explaining the perceptions and actions of each party -- the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang of China, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Terminology -- Introduction -- China (Map) -- 1. Yalta and the Search for Stability -- 2. The Jiang-Stalin Pact and the Collapse of Great Power Cooperation -- 3. The Seventh Party Congress and the Origins of CCP Foreign Policy -- 4. The Race to Shenyang: Chinese Politics and the Soviet Occupation of the Northeast -- North China (Map) -- 5. Allies and Enemies: Mao, Jiang, and the U.S. Intervention in North China -- 6. The Origins of the Marshall Mission -- 7. The Soviet Withdrawal and the Coming of the Civil War -- Conclusion: Revolt, Intervention, and Cold War -- A Word on Chinese Archives and Materials -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Describes the way political development in China influenced the diplomatic and military rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union in East Asia at the end of World War II and the effect Soviet-American rivalry had on the struggle for political power in China. Uses a four-cornered pattern of analysis, giving equal importance to explaining the perceptions and actions of each party -- the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang of China, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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