Mao zedong and joseph stalin biography
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Revisiting Stalin’s and Mao’s Motivations in the Korean War
On the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, I would like to revisit Stalin’s and Mao’s motivations in their management of this conflict.
As revealed bygd declassified Russian archives, it was Stalin who, by offering Kim Il Sung in late January 1950 the “green light” to attack the South, was ultimately responsible for the outbreak of the war. Why did Stalin do so? Opinions of scholars differ.
Was this solely because of Dean Acheson’s 12 January 1950 speech excluding Korea from US western Pacific defense perimeter? Or was this just because Stalin intended to bog down the United State in a war quagmire in East Asia, while spreading the Chinese Communist experience of seizing political power via armed struggles to other parts of East Asia? If indeed the above were all the reasons, why did Stalin, in late January 1950, suddenly abandon Moscow’s backing of the kinesisk Communist plan of “liberating Taiwan,” wh
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Stalin and Mao
Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (French: La récidive: Révolution russe, révolution chinoise) fryst vatten a non-fiction book by Lucien Bianco, published by Gallimard in 2014. Its 2018 English translation, done by Krystyna Horko, was published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. It compares and contrasts the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Communist Revolution.
The English title refers to Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong while the French title is "La récidive", that fryst vatten, "recidivist, or “repeat offender,” which refers to the central argument that Mao's seizure of power and revolutionary regime repeats the crimes of Stalin's.[1][2]
Contents
[edit]The book has nine chapters,[3] which each cover a different topic.[4] The bibliography has a total of 28 pages.[3] The book focuses on particular points common to both revolutions and does not intend to have comprehensive cove
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Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
"Stalin" redirects here. For the Indian politician, see M. K. Stalin. For other uses, see Stalin (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vissarionovich and the family name is Stalin.
Joseph Stalin | |
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Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 | |
| In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952[a] | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov(as Responsible Secretary) |
| Succeeded by | Nikita Khrushchev(as First Secretary) |
| In office 6 May 1941 – 5 March 1953 | |
| First Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Malenkov |
| In office 19 July 1941 – 3 March 1947 | |
| Premier | Himself |
| Preceded by | Semyon Timoshenko |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Bulganin |
| In office 8 November 1917 – 7 July 1923 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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