 | the CPSU CC Politburo on July 11, 1949, and first published by Andrei Ledovsky, "The Moscow Visit of a Delegation of the Communist Party of China in June to August 1949,"
Far Eastern Affairs
4 (1996): 64-85. The emphasis is Stalin's. The full text is in the appendix to the present volume, document III.
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| 28. Former Soviet Vice-Foreign Minister Mikhail S. Kapitsa, author's interview, Moscow, September 7, 1992 (hereafter "Kapitsa interview"). For accounts of Liu's visit, see Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian
[Beside historical giants] (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian, 1991); Ivan V. Kovalev, "Dialog Stalina s Ma Tsedunom"
Problemy Dalnego Vostoka,
6 ( 1991 ): 83-93; 1-3 ( 1992): 77-91; Zhu Yuanshi, "Liu Shaoqi 1949 nian mimi fangSu" (Liu Shaoqi's secret visit to the Soviet Union),
Dang de wenxian,
3 (1991): 77-9.
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| 29. Record of conversation, Stalin-Liu, June 27, 1949, APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 329, p. 4.
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| 30. This, indeed, may have been one reason why Mao suggested that he visit "the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe" in April 1948 (Ledovsky, "The Moscow Visit," 77).
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| 31. Record of conversation, Mao Zedong-Roshchin, October 16, 1949, AVPRF, f. 07, op. 22, pa. 36, d. 220, pp. 48-51.
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| 32. Record of conversation, Roshchin-Zhou Enlai, November 10, 1949, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 42, pa. 288, d. 19, pp. 81-5; Andrei Gromyko to Stalin, November 26, 1949, AVPRF, f. 07, op. 22a, pa. 13, d. 198, pp. 32-6.
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| 33. This summary of the 1949-50 Moscow summit is based in part on Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai,
Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993) and is largely consistent with the findings in that volume. The reminiscences of one of Stalin's main China advisers, Ivan Kovalev, provide a useful, but expectedly one-sided, guide to the talks: Kovalev, "Dialog Stalina s Mao Tszedunem" [Stalin's dialogue with Mao Zedong],
Problemy dalnego vostoka
6 (1991): 83-93 and 1-3 (1992): 77-91, also useful are the reminiscences of Shi Zhe, Mao's Russian interpreter:
Zai lishi jüren shenbian
[Beside historical giants] (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian, 1991). The most complete archival holdings on the negotiations are in Vyshinskii's ministerial papers, AVPRF, f. 07, op. 23a-d. These must, however, be supplemented by the available Chinese documents, for instance, in Zhonghua renmin gongheguo waijiaobu and Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi, comps.,
Mao Zedong waijiao wenxuan
[Selected Mao Zedong works on foreign affairs] (Beijing:
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