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Journal of Cold War Studies (2020) 22 (1): 210–242.
Published: 01 February 2020
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Chinese Society amid Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: The Roots and Nature of the Tragedy
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2019) 21 (2): 174–196.
Published: 01 May 2019
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2019) 20 (4): 212–226.
Published: 01 February 2019
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Deng Xiaoping, China, and the World
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2017) 19 (4): 211–225.
Published: 01 December 2017
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2017) 19 (2): 84–114.
Published: 01 April 2017
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View articletitled, Lost Chance for Peace: The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang Peace Talks Revisited
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This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war. The article shows that the talks represented a lost opportunity to avert the slide into fratricidal warfare. The CCP leader, Mao Zedong, under pressure from Iosif Stalin, was prepared to compromise with his rival Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of dividing China into two separately administered territories (roughly, north and south). Chiang was unwilling to consider such a step, which from his perspective was unpatriotic. His resistance to the division of China doomed the talks and precipitated the outbreak of war.
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2016) 18 (3): 198–200.
Published: 01 July 2016
View articletitled, Zhang Xiaoming, Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979–1991 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 296 pp. $34.95
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Mao: The Real Story
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2015) 17 (2): 158–160.
Published: 01 April 2015
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2014) 16 (3): 224–225.
Published: 01 July 2014
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2013) 15 (2): 104–130.
Published: 01 April 2013
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View articletitled, Gorbachev, Ozawa, and the Failed Back-Channel Negotiations of 1989–1990
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This article analyzes the evolution, content, and fate of the back-channel negotiations between senior Soviet and Japanese officials in 1989–1990, a time of radical changes in most aspects of Soviet foreign policy. Sources that have recently become available—especially the private papers of Aleksandr Yakovlev and Anatolii Chernyaev and several recently published collections of documents—not only confirm what has long been suspected about this critical channel of negotiation but shed valuable light on motives and complications in Moscow that precipitated the channel's ultimate failure. Because Japanese documents on the matter have not yet been declassified, the article cannot offer a full account of these talks, but the Soviet documents are sufficient to indicate why a bilateral rapprochement has been so elusive.
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2012) 14 (4): 266–268.
Published: 01 October 2012
View articletitled, Pavel Stroilov, Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen from the Kremlin That Sheds New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East . Chicago: Price World Publishing, 2011
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Reply to the Commentaries
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2012) 14 (1): 107–110.
Published: 01 January 2012
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In this forum, three leading experts on Sino-Soviet relations and Mao Zedong's policy toward the Soviet Union offer their appraisals of Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens, The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967 , published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The commentators praise many aspects of Radchenko's book, but Michael Sheng and to a lesser extent Qiang Zhai and Deborah Kaple wonder whether Radchenko has gone too far in downplaying the role of ideology in Mao's foreign policy. Unlike Lorenz Lüthi, who gives decisive weight to ideology in his own book about the Sino-Soviet split, Radchenko argues that a classical realist approach is the best framework for understanding Chinese foreign policy and the rift between China and the Soviet Union. Sheng and Zhai also raise questions about some of the sources used by Radchenko. Replying to the commentaries, Radchenko defends his conception of Mao's foreign policy, arguing that it is a more nuanced view than Sheng and Zhai imply. Radchenko also stresses the inherent shortcomings of the source base scholars are forced to use when analyzing Chinese foreign policy.
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Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism . New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 736 pp. $35.99
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2011) 13 (1): 256–258.
Published: 01 January 2011
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Sino-Soviet Relations and the Emergence of the Chinese Communist Regime, 1946–1950: New Documents, Old Story
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Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (4): 115–124.
Published: 01 October 2007
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View articletitled, Sino-Soviet Relations and the Emergence of the Chinese Communist Regime, 1946–1950: New Documents, Old Story
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Andrei Ledovskii, a long-time Soviet diplomat with a particular expertise on East Asian affairs, and several other Russian specialists on Soviet policy in the Far East have published a massive collection of declassified documents about Soviet policy vis-à-vis China in the first five years after World War II. The authors seek to show that the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war was attributable to Soviet fraternal help, that Josif Stalin wholeheartedly embraced the Chinese Communists' struggle for power, and that the Sino-Soviet alliance from beginning to end enjoyed unstinting Soviet support. But in fact the documents reveal that Stalin's policy toward the Chinese Communists was opportunistic and utilitarian, that he refrained from decisively supporting the Communists in the Civil War until almost the end, and that all the talk of proletarian internationalism in the Sino-Soviet alliance was but a cloak for Soviet expansionist ambitions in East Asia.