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Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Portrait of Mao Zedong from propaganda poster

Mao, Zedong

1893- 1976

Photograph of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, 1945

Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950

A photo of Joseph Stalin from 1943

Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

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Kovalev, Ivan

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Photograph of Zhou Enlai in 1972.

Zhou, Enlai

1898- 1976

Anastas Mikoyan in 1959

Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich

1895- 1978

Official Chinese Communist Party portrait of Liu Shaoqi.

Liu, Shaoqi

1898- 1969

Conversations with Mao Zedong

Aerial view of National Mall

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Uyghur man in Xinjiang

China

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

China and the Soviet Union in Xinjiang, 1934-1949

Pyongyang photographed in March 20212

East Asia

North Korea

Japan's Itsukushima Shrine

East Asia

Japan

Photograph of Kim Il Sung in Moscow, March 1949

Korean War Origins, 1945-1950

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February 4, 1949	Memorandum of Conversation between Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong discuss the independence of Mongolia, the independence movement in Xinjiang, the construction of a railroad in Xinjiang, CCP contacts with the VKP(b), the candidate for Chinese ambassador to the USSR, aid from the USSR to China, CCP negotiations with the Guomindang, the preparatory commisssion for convening the PCM, the character of future rule in China, Chinese treaties with foreign powers, and the Sino-Soviet treaty.
October 17, 1948	Cable, Stalin to Mao Zedong [via Terebin] Stalin tells Mao, through Terebin (Andrei Orlov), that he, Stalin, received Mao's letter and that the Soviet leaders would answer Mao's questions upon his arrival in Moscow.
November 21, 1948	Cable, Mao to Stalin Mao asks to delay his trip to Moscow until December.
February 5, 1949	Memorandum of Conversation between Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong discuss the role of foreign capital in China, Chinese intelligentsia, the role of criticism and self-criticism in the CCP, CCP tasks in the army, the level of China's industrial development, the Chinese attitude toward foreign property, and the road and character of the Chinese revolution. (Day)
February 5, 1949	Memorandum of Conversation between Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong discuss the situation within the CCP, the workers' question, the military situation an the CCP's tasks, and Rittenberg and Ma Haide. (Evening)
February 3, 1949	Memorandum of Conversation between Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong Anastas Mikoyan and Mao Zedong converse about the mediation talks between the CCP and the Guomindang, Yugoslavia, coordination between the communist parties of the Asian countries, and the history of the CCP.
January 6, 1949	Ciphered Telegram No. 0100, Stalin to Terebin Stalin, through Terebin (Andrei Orlov), acknowledges that creating a democratic coalition government in China will take a significant amount of time. Stalin states, however, that it would be best if the final stages of the process take place sooner than the summer, the time Mao planned to have the government established.
January 8, 1949	Cable, Mao Zedong to Stalin Mao thanks Stalin for sending over Ivan Kovalev to help with economic struggles in China. Mao asks for materials with which China may build railroads.
January 9, 1949	Ciphered Telegram No. 50333, Terebin to Kuznetsov, transmitting a Message from Mao Zedong to Stalin Mao announces that he is ready to visit Moscow.
January 10, 1949	Cable, Mao to Filippov [Stalin] Mao responds to Stalin's telegram from 6 January 1949. Mao states that any government the GMD may create will be of no influence, that the GMD army is diminished, and that soon the People's Liberation Army will be able to march south and capture several important provinces.