 | 73. See Frederick C. Teiwes,
Politics and Purges in China
(2nd ed.); (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1993), 293-6. Selections from Mao's speeches to this crucial MAC meeting are in
Chinese Law and Government
(Winter 1968-69): 16-21;
Mao Zedong waijiao wenxuan,
318;
Mao Zedong junshi wenji,
vol. 6, 374-5.
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| 74. Kapitsa interview; an indication of these problems may be found in the meetings in Moscow in June and July 1958 on future Soviet assistance to China; see, for instance, record of conversation, Vice Foreign Minister Kuznetsov-Zhang Weilu, July 11, 1958, and enclosed summary of Chinese requests, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 51, pa. 431, d. 3, pp. 50-2.
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| 75. Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian,
572; see also "Memuari Nikiti Sergeevicha Khrushcheva" [Memoirs of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev],
Voprosy istorii
2 (1993): 90-1.
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| 76. Note from Chinese government to Soviet government, September 22, 1958, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 51, pa. 431, d. 3, pp. 73-6; Mao Zedong to Zhou Enlai, October 11, 1958,
Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao,
vol. 7,449-50; Mao speech, December 1959, ibid., vol. 8, 600; record of conversation, Iudin-Chen Yi, November 30, 1958, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 51, pa. 432, d. 6, pp. 188-96; Soviet statements of September 7 and 19, 1958, in I. F. Kurdiukov et al., eds.,
Sovetsko-kitaiskie otnosheniia, 1917-1957: sbornik dokumentov
(Moscow: Vostochnoi literatury, 1959). See also Vladislav M. Zubok, "Khrushchev' s Nuclear Promise to Beijing during the 1958 Crisis,"
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996): 219, 226-7. For a view underlining Soviet support for China during the crisis, see Mark Kramer, "The USSR Foreign Ministry's Appraisal of Sino-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Split, September 1959,"
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), 170-85.
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| 77. Kapitsa interview; author's interview with Khrushchev's foreign policy aide and later Soviet ambassador to China, Oleg Troyanovskii, Moscow, September 14, 1992 (hereafter Troyanovskii interview).
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| 78. Mao's writings immediately before and during the 1959 Lushan meetings reveal how he linked his domestic problems with the Sino-Soviet relationship, see
Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao,
vol. 8, 286-430; see also Teiwes,
Politics and Purges,
301-44.
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| 79.
Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao,
vol. 8, 368. Mao wrote this report and ordered it to be circulated on July 19 in response to a
cri de coeur
from the Chinese embassy in Moscow dated July 2. "Recently, some Russian cadres, especially those who work directly with us, have started commenting on our difficult situation. [They say that] the
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