Mao: The Unknown Story

1 –64 “collapsing by the day”: 25 Feb. 1929, in JGG vol. 1, p. 249. Hundreds killed: JGG vol. 2, p. 99–101, 564–5; visit to site. Stay-behind committee report: JGG vol. 1, p. 309. “Alliance with bandits”: ZZWX vol. 4, p. 399; 14 Jan. 1929 report from Special Party Committee to Hunan Provincial Committee, describing plan to “annihilate” Yuan’s followers (RGASPI, 495/25/668, p. 30). Red search unit report: JGG vol.2, p. 643.

2 Mao cheerful: Zeng Zhi, in “Mao and I” Collection Committee 1993a, p. 81. Moscow aid for Mao: VKP vol. 3, p. 518 (Comintern meeting minutes, 29 Jan. 1929). Zhu De’s wife: Smedley 1956, pp. 223–4; JGG vol. 2, pp. 520, 552; HDT, 1984, no. 1, p. 22. Mao abolishes Zhu post: Mao later report, 1 June 1929, ZDJC vol. 14, p. 222 (E: MRTP vol. 3, p. 171). Curry favor with Shanghai: Mao, 20 Mar. & 5 Apr. 1929, JGG vol. 1, pp. 289, 292, 302 (E: MRTP vol. 3, pp. 148, 161).

3 “suddenly turned back”: Mao, 20 Mar. 1929, JGG vol. 1, p. 291 (E: MRTP vol. 3, p. 150). “supply is no problem”: Mao, 5 Apr. 1929, JGG vol. 1, p. 301 (E: MRTP vol. 3, p. 159). Fascist shirt: Le Missioni Francescane vol. 6 (1928), p. 151. Mao in Tingzhou: Mao, 20 Mar. 1929, JGG vol. 1, p. 289 (E: MRTP vol. 3, p. 147); CCP Changting Committee, pp. 43–4; interview with a local Party historian, 9 Apr. 1996. An-gong charged Mao: DDWX, 1989, no. 5, pp. 37–8; 1994, no. 4, p. 87; Jin Chongji et al. 1993, p. 178.

4 Mao 1 June 1929 report: ZDJC vol. 14, pp. 221–4 (E: MRTP vol. 3, pp. 171–4). Mao unpopular: Chin I-sun (Chen Yi), “Report … on the Question of the Red Army [and] Zhu De and Mao Tse-tung,” 9 Jan. 1930, RGASPI, 514/1/1009, p. 5; cf. VKP vol. 3, p. 1263. DDWX, 1989, no. 5, pp. 38–9. Criticisms of Zhu: Xin Ziling 1995, vol. 1, p. 385. Mao voted out: Xiao Ke 1993, 101; DDWX, 1994, no. 4, p. 88; Zeng Zhi, in “Mao and I” Collection Committee 1993a, p. 85. “work with locals”: Mao letter, 14 June 1929, Mao 1993–9, vol. 1, p. 75 (E: MRTP vol. 3, p. 188).

5 –67 “rather crestfallen”: Jiang Hua, in DDWX, 1989, no. 5, p. 41. Mao got crony to call congress: Deng Zihui Biography Committee, p. 88. Mao not ill: Jiang Hua, DDWX, 1989, no. 5, p. 41. Jiaoyang congress: description and quotes from the report, “About the First Congress of the CCP West Fujian,” July 1929, in Jiangxi Archive & CCP Jiangxi Committee, vol. 2, pp. 102–5.

6 –68 Lin Biao: Xiao Ke 1993, pp. 19, 28; Xin Ziling 2002, p. 56. Mao befriended Lin: Titov, vol. 1, pp. 189–91; Xin Ziling 2002, pp. 42–4. Lin disobeyed Zhu: Jin Chongji et al. 1993, p. 180; interview with Xiao Ke, 30 Sept. 1993; cf. Xiao Ke 1993, p. 26.

7 European agents: Grigoriev 2002a, pp. 156–7; Adibekov et al., p. 134, n. 89 (Stalin order to use non-Russians, 23 Apr. 1928); Russian archive details on scores of agents in China in Kolpakidi & Prokhorov 2000a, 2000b, 2001; Lurye & Kochik; Yang Kuisong 1997, pp. 255–70; Cai He-sen, in Central Archive 1982b, p. 135.

8 –70 “What beautiful girls”: Han Suyin, pp. 66–7 (E: Han Suyin 1994, p. 59). Girlfriend: Jin Chongji et al. 1990, p. 78. “I chose your aunt”: ibid. Chou to create Chinese Red Army: Zhou 1991, pp. 68, 114, 125; Mirovitskaya 1993; Grigoriev 2002b, p. 312. “Charge!”: Nie, pp. 59–60. Genius at clandestine work: Wang Fan-xi interview, 20 June 1995.

9 Set up Chinese KGB: Krymov, pp. 344–64; Usov 2002, pp. 194–206; Zhou 1991, p. 115. Chou self-criticism: 3 Jan. 1931, in ZZWX vol. 6, p. 359. “smack him on the bottom”: Conclusion by the Comintern representative at the 4th Plenum, 1931, ZZWX vol. 7, p. 39. “Once he started talking”: Wang Fanxi, pp. 136–7. Talk for 8 hours: once in Tingzhou, interview with a Tingzhou museum curator, 9 Apr. 1996. Chou letter, 21 Aug. 1929: DDWX, 1991, no. 2, pp. 39–42.

1 °Cited in Lih et al., p. 118 n. 5.

11 Stalin prepared to invade Manchuria: VKP vol. 3, p. 583 (Politburo, 6 Aug. 1929); Lih et al., p. 182 (Stalin to Molotov, 7 Oct. 1929); Kolpakidi & Prokhorov 2000a, p. 183. “defend the Soviet Union with arms”: CCP Politburo to CCP delegation to Comintern repeats this order, 21 Aug. 1929, ZZWX vol. 5, pp. 412–13. Soviet Politburo named Mao: VKP vol. 3, p. 616 (15 Oct. 1929); cf. ibid., pp. 483–4.