Stalin and Mao. Friends and rivals

In the dramatic history of the 20th century, I. Stalin and Mao Zedong occupy a special place. The leaders of the two great powers who plunged their peoples into the abyss of the deepest upheavals, whose echo did not fade to this day. Their relationship was extremely complex. In a large political game, there was a place for mutual suspicions, and intrigues, and treachery. In his book, the most prominent Russian Chinese, the author of numerous publications on the latest history of China, Yuri Mikhailovich Galenovich, reveals in detail the background of the events of the 1940-1950s, showing the complexity and inconsistency of that time, all the ambiguity of the motives and actions of the leaders who performed the fate of hundreds of millions of their fellow citizens. < /p>