Mao: The Unknown Story

Since we completed our book, all the cables we cited (from Russian archives) between Mao and Stalin in the years 1947–1949, plus the reports of Anastas Mikoyan from China to Stalin in January-February 1949, and many other previously unpublished documents have become available in Tikhvinsky, S. L., et al., eds., Russko-kitayskiye otnosheniya v XX veke: sovietsko-kitayskiye otnosheniya: Materialyi i dokumentyi, vol. V (1946-fevral [February] 1950); book 1: 1946–1948; book 2: 1949–fevral 1950 (Russo-Chinese Relations in the 20th Century … Materials & Documents) (Moscow, Pamyatnik Istoricheskoy Myisli, 2005) [Tikhvinsky 2005].

WEB REFERENCES

Web/Dimitrov

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1937/china1.htm

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv2n2/dimitrov.htm

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv5n2/dimitrov.htm

Web/JPRS

http://e-asia.uoregon.edu

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/collected-works/index.htm

Web/NSA

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/china-us/index.html

Web/PHP

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/

Diaries (Dimitrov; P. P. Vladimirov) are referenced by date entry only. References to the names “Dimitrov” and “Vladimirov” alone are to their diaries.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS

Photograph no. 10, by Auguste François, is reproduced by permission of Réunion des Musées Nationaux; no. 14, by Cecil Beaton, by permission of the Beaton Estate; no. 16, by permission of Getty Images; no. 19, by permission of Wang Danzhi; nos. 29 and 39, by permission of the Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov (the Russian State Archive of Photodocuments); no. 34, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, by permission of Magnum Photos; no. 45, by Du Xiuxian; no. 53, by Lu Houmin; nos. 61, 63, 64 and 65, by Li Zhensheng; nos. 67, 72, 76 and 77, by Du Xiuxian.

The room where Mao was born, on 26 December 1893, in Shaoshan village, Hunan province.(photo illustration 1)

Mao Tse-tung (right), in the only photograph of him with his mother, taken in Changsha in 1919, shortly before she died. Mao, aged twenty-five, is dressed in scholar’s garb, while his two younger brothers, Tse-tan (far left) and Tse-min, are still wearing peasant clothes.(photo illustration 2)

Mao Tse-tung (right), wearing a black armband just after the death of his mother, with his father (second from left), uncle (second from right), and brother Tse-tan (far left), Changsha, 13 November 1919.(photo illustration 3)

Yang Kai-hui, Mao’s second wife, with their two eldest sons, An-ying (right), aged two, and Anching, aged one, Shanghai, 1924. Kai-hui was soon to be deserted by Mao, and executed by the Nationalists because of Mao. She left poignant manuscripts describing her disillusionment with communism and with Mao, whom she loved.(photo illustration 4)

Moscow’s key agents in China. Grigori Voitinsky (above left) founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1920. Maring (above right), the Dutch agitator, co-presided over the first congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921. He later broke with communism and was executed by the Nazis. (Below) Mikhail Borodin (far right) steered both the Nationalists and the Communists in 1923–27. He was in Canton, 1925, with Chiang Kai-shek (next to him), soon to become the Nationalists’ leader, and Wang Ching-wei (front), Mao’s patron in the Nationalist Party, and later head of the Japanese puppet government.(photo illustration 5)

Ruijin, 7 November 1931, the day the first Chinese Red state was founded, when Mao (second from right) became the “Chairman.” To his left Wang Jia-xiang; to his right: Xiang Ying, Deng Fa, military chief Zhu De, Ren Bi-shi and Gu Zuo-lin.(photo illustration 8)

The leadership of the Red state held its first formal meeting on 1 December 1931. Mao standing, back to camera. Zhu De to Mao’s right. The Red state collapsed in October 1934, when the Long March began.(photo illustration 9)

The bridge over the Dadu River at Luding, the site of the core myth about the Long March. Communist claims of fierce fighting here in 1935 were invented.(photo illustration 10)

Mao (standing, third from left, looking Oscar Wilde-ish), in his post — Long March HQ, Yenan, September 1937, with some of the participants in the “Autumn Harvest Uprising” of 1927, the founding moment of the myth of Mao as a peasant leader. His third wife, Gui-yuan, is standing far right.(photo illustration 11)

Mao (seated, second from left), with Red Army officers, including Zhu De (seated, third from left) and Mao’s closest crony, Lin Biao (seated, fourth from left), Yenan, 1937.(photo illustration 12)

The four moles who helped doom the Nationalists. Shao Li-tzu (right) delivered Chiang Kai-shek’s son to Moscow in 1925 to be Stalin’s hostage for over a decade. To get his son back, Chiang let the Reds survive during the Long March.(photo illustration 13)