| Also see "Ke ba wo buzhan Shenyang bu duan dianyuan zuowei tong Guomindang tan-pan ziben" [We can use our not taking Shenyang and not cutting off electricity to that city as a bargaining chip in the negotiations with the GMD], March 18, 1946; "Su xiang Sufang jiaoshe lizheng wo jieguan Chang, Ha, Chi" [Immediately negotiate with the Soviet side to try to gain control over Changchun, Ha'erbin, and Chichiha'er], March 26, 1946; "Peng Zhen guanyu Sujun chejun riqi zhi Li, Huang bing gao Zhongyang" [Cable from Peng Zhen to Li, Huang, and the CC on the date of the withdrawal of the Soviet military], April 3, 1946, all in CCA.
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| 55. Mao Zedong xuanji, vol. 4, 1184-5.
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| 56. Ibid., 1193-4; see also "Mao Zedong yu Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai de tanhua" [Conversation between Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhou Enlai], November 21, 1946, CCA.
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| 57. For a differing analysis, emphasizing Mao's easy adaptation to Soviet policies and views, see Michael Sheng, Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 145-60.
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| 58. Sidalin wenji, 1934-1952 [Selected works of Stalin, 1934-1952] (Beijing: Renmin, 1985), 518.
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| 59. A. C. Anijin, Waijiao shi [Diplomatic history] (Hong Kong: Sanlian, 1983), vol. 5, part 1, 186.
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| 60. "Chen Yi chuanda Mao zhuxi shi'er yue Zhongyang huiyi tanhua" [Chen Yi on the talk of Chairman Mao at the meeting of the Central Committee in December], Archival Section, Department of Party History, Zhongguo Renmin Daxue, no. 6521/2.5.
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| 61. Ibid.
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| 62. After the CCP CC left Yan'an, the Soviet Union had planned to ask the CCP leaders to seek shelter in the Soviet Union. Shi Zhe, Zai lishi jüren shenbian, 346.
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| 63. "Chen Yi chuanda Mao zhuxi shi'er yue Zhongyang huiyi tanhua."
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| 64. Dedijer, Sunan chingtu de jingli, 98.
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| 65. N. B. Kewaliaofu [Kovalev], "Sidalin he Mao Zedong de duihua" [The dialogue between Stalin and Mao Zedong], Guowai sheke xinxi, 21 (1992): 29.
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