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Authors: Odd Arne Westad

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66. Soon after the Soviet expert group arrived in the Northeast, it suggested the CCP Northeast Bureau set up a government there. It also claimed that such a government would receive diplomatic recognition from the Soviet Union and East European countries and that in this way the CCP would be able to obtain more assistance. See "Lin yu Kelei deng de tanhua" [Conversation between Lin and Kelei], June 30, 1948, CCA.
67. There are great discrepancies in Chinese memoirs on Mao Zedong's proposals to Stalin for visiting Moscow. With regard to the reasons for Mao's planned visit, see Shi Zhe, "Mao Zodong zhuxi diyici fangwen Sulian jingguo" [Chairman Mao Zedong's first visit to the Soviet Union], Waijiaobu waijiaoshi bianjibu, ed.,
Xin Zhongguo waijiao fengyun
[Diplomacy for the New China] (Beijing: Shijie zhishi, 1990), vol. 1, 8-9;
Nie Rongzhen huiyilu
[Nie Rongzhen's memoirs] (Beijing: Jiefangjun, 1984), vol. 2, 675. Some new information on Mao's proposals can be found in Andrei Ledovsky, "Mikoyan's Secret Mission to China in January and February 1949,"
Far Eastern Affairs
no. 2 (1995).
68.
Nansilafu wenti canto ziliao
[Reference material on Yugoslavia] (Beijing: Shijie zhishi, 1958), 11.
69. "Zhongguo Gongchandang Zhongyang weiyuanhui guanyu xuexi NanGong wenti jueyi de zhishi" [CCP CC instruction on studying the resolution on the question of the Yugoslav Communist Party], July 1, 1948, CCA.
70. "Zhongyang pizhuan Dongbei ju guanyu xuexi NanGong wenti jueyi de zhishi" [CCP CC instruction on referring the resolution of the Northeast Bureau on the study of the question of the Yugoslav Communist Party], August 11, 1948, CCA.
71. For Liu Shaoqi's article, see
Renmin ribao,
November 1, 1948.
72. "Youfang yaoqiu moshou Ying Mei Fa diantai" [The friendly side request confiscation of radio stations of Britain, the U.S., and France], November 16, 1948, CCA.
73. "Zhonggong Zhongyang fuzeren ping Zhongguo junshi xingshi" [The CCP CC leaders' comments on the military situation in China], Department of Party History, Zhongguo renmin daxue, ed.,
Zhonggong dangshi jiaoxue cankao ziliao: Jiefang zhanzheng shiqi
[Teaching and reference materials on CCP history: The period of the war of liberation], (Beijing: N.n., n.d. [1979]) vol. 2, 311.
74. Kewaliaofu, "Sidalin he Mao Zedong."

 

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75. At the end of the 1980s, there was much debate on this question among scholars in the People's Republic. For some of the more important works, see Wang Fangming, "Yao shishi qiushi, duli sikao: huiyi Mao zhuxi 1958 nian de yici qinqie tanhua" [Seek truth from facts and develop independent thinking: Recalling a talk with Chairman Mao in 1958],
Renmin ribao,
January 2, 1982; Liu Xiao,
Chushi Sulian banian
[Eight years as ambassador to the Soviet Union] (Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi ziliao, 1986), 4; Yu Zhan and Zhang Guanyou, "Guanyu Sidalin cengfou quanzu wo guo Changjiang de tantao" [Exploring the question whether Stalin did try to prevent us from crossing the Yangzi River],
Dang de wenxian,
1 (1989); Xiang Qing, "Guanyu Sidalin quanzu jiangfang dajun guojiang zhi wo jian" [My view on Stalin's effort to prevent the PLA to cross the Yangzi River],
Dang de wenxian,
6 (1989); Chen Guangxiang, ''Dui Sidalin ganyu wojun guojiang wenti de tantao" [Exploring the question of Stalin's interference in the effort of our army to cross the Yangzi River],
Dangshi yanjiu ziliao,
7-8 (1989).
76. Stalin to Mao Zedong, January 10, 1949; Stalin to Mao Zedong, January 11, 1949; Mao Zedong to Stalin, January 13, 1949; Stalin to Mao Zedong, January 14, 1949; Mao Zedong to Stalin, January 14, 1949; Stalin to Mao Zedong, January 15, 1949;
Cold War International History Project Bulletin ( CWIHP Bulletin)
6-7(Winter 1995/1996), 27-9; see also Odd Arne Westad, "Rivals and Allies: Stalin, Mao, and the Chinese Civil War, January 1949,"
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), 7. Yu Zhan and Zhang Guanyou's article quoted Stalin's telegram to Mao on January 10 and Mao's response to Stalin without citation. According to Yu and Zhang, Mao's telegram to Stalin is on January 11. See
Dang de wenxian
1 (1989): 57-8.
77. Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian,
375-85; Ledovsky, "Mikoyan's Secret Mission," 84-92.
78. "Stalin Cable to Kovalev re Trade with Capitalist Countries," March 15, 1949, quoted in Goncharov et al.,
Uncertain Partners,
230-1.
79. "Stalin Cable to Mao re the Principles of Establishing Relations with the United States," April 1949, ibid., 231.
80. Notes on Mao Zedong's address at the Politburo meeting on January 6, 1949, CCA.
81. "Zhongyang guanyu waijiao gongs de zhishi" [CCP CC instruction regarding diplomatic work], January 19, 1949,
Zhonggong Zhongyang wenjian xuanji,
vol. 18, 44-9.

 

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