{"product_id":"mao-stalin-and-the-korean-war","title":"Mao, Stalin and the Korean War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of much interest to students of Communist China, Stalinist Russia, the Korean War, Cold War Studies and International History in general.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45590163521774,"sku":"9780415748124","price":74.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415748124_a49f833c-9333-45f8-9335-ac4aa6ee04f9.jpg?v=1721231053","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/mao-stalin-and-the-korean-war","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}