Richard Thornton. China, the Struggle for Power, 1917-1972.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Part I

The Origin and Development of Chinese Communism, 1917-1941

I – To Build a Communist Movement in China, 1917-1927

II – The “Soviet” Experiment, 1927-1931

III – Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934

IV – From the Long March to the United Front, 1934-1937

V – The Road to War, 1937-1941

Part II

The American Experience in China, 1941-1949

VI – World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944

VII – The United States, the Soviet Union, and China, 1945

VIII – Strategies in Conflict, 1946-1949

Part III

The Sino-Soviet Relationship, 1949-1972

IX – The Soviet Union and the Chinese People’s Republic, 1949-1959

X – The Polarization of Communist Politics, 1959-1965

XI – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution I: The Mounting Crisis, 1965-1967

XII – The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution II: Protracted Crisis, 1967-1968

XIII – China, the Unsettled Dragon, 1969-1972