{"product_id":"mao-stalin-and-the-korean-shen-zhihua-9780415748124","title":"Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shen Zhihua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415748127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415748124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Shen Zhihua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966097617151,"sku":"9780415748124","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f1082a9e-4dd5-4cd0-b010-90bfe5326974.jpg?v=1711158851","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mao-stalin-and-the-korean-shen-zhihua-9780415748124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}