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82. Mao Zedong, "Zai qijie er'zhong quanhui shang de zongjie" [Summary at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Seventh Party Congress], March 13, 1949, CCA.
83. "Zai Zhongguo Gongchandang di qi jie Zhongyang weiyuanhui di er ci quanti huiyi shang de baogao" [Report at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Seventh Party Congress], March 5, 1949,
Mao Zedong xuanji,
vol. 4, 1434-5.
84. After the outbreak of the civil war and the CCP's decision to launch an all-out counterattack, CCP leaders repeatedly discussed and rejected the idea that the United States might intervene militarily.
85. "Dongbei ju ying shengming yu Meiguo wu waijiao guanxi" [The Northeast Bureau should issue a public statement to the effect that it does not have diplomatic relations with the United States], November 11, 1948, CCA.
86. Mao Zedong, "Dui 'Leiwen he tanhua zhaiyao' de piyu" [Comments on 'the report about Leiwen and conversation with him'], December 4, 1948, CCA.
87. Mao Zedong, "Jiang geming jinxing daodi" [Carry the revolution through to the end], December 30, 1948,
Mao Zedong xuanji,
vol. 4, 1374.
88. "Muqian de xingshi he dang zai 1949 nian de renwu" [Current situation and the tasks of the party in 1949], January 8, 1949,
Zhonggong Zhongyang wenjian xuanji,
vol. 18, 17-18.
89. "Huang Hua he Situ tanhua neirong" [The conversation between Huang Hua and Stuart], June 7, 1949, CCA. See the discussion of new findings on the "Lost Chance in China" controversy in the Winter 1997 issue of
Diplomatic History.
90. Ledovsky, "Mikoyan's Secret Mission," 92.
91.
Mao Zedong xuanji,
vol. 4, 1472-3. As early as April 8, in a conversation with Zhang Zhizhong, Mao already had detailed the main viewpoints of the article; see Yu Zhanbang, "Mao Zedong yu Zhang Zhizhong de yici zhongyao tanhua" [An important conversation between Mao Zedong and Zhang Zhizhong],
Zhonggong dangshi ziliao,
48 (1993): 152-5.
92. "Zhonggong Zhongyang gei Nanjing shiwei he Huadongju de dianbao" [CCP CC to the Nanjing committee and the East China bureau], June 30, 1949, CCA.

 

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93. The full Soviet version of the report, with Stalin's annotations, is in Andrei Ledovsky, "The Moscow Visit of a Delegation of the Communist Party of China in June to August 1949,"
Far Eastern Affairs
(Moscow), 4 (1996): 64-85. The Chinese original is "Zhongguo Gongchandang daibiaotun gel Liangong Zhongyang Stalin tongzhi de baogao" [CCP CC delegation's report to CPSU and Stalin], July 4, 1949, CCA. For Chinese discussions of the report, see Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian,
398-403, and Zhu Yuanshi, "Liu Shaoqi 1949 nian mimi fangSu" [Liu Shaoqi's secret visit to the Soviet Union],
Dang de wenxian,
3 (1991): 77-9.
94. In his conversation with Mikoyan, Mao commented that the question of liberating Taiwan was very complicated, because of difficulties in crossing the Taiwan Straits and the danger of American intervention: Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian,
380-1. According to Kovalev, in the summer of 1949 Mao Zedong extensively discussed with him the question of liberating Xinjiang and expressed hopes of receiving Soviet assistance on the matter. In addition, Kovalev claims that the CCP had sought Soviet aid to the PLA to liberate Taiwan: N. B. Kewaliaofu [Kovalev], "Sidalin he Mao Zedong de duihua" [The dialogue between Stalin and Mao Zedong],
Guowai sheke xinxi,
9 (1992): 31 and 21 (1992): 31.
95. According to Kovalev, Stalin did not agree to aid the CCP in liberating Taiwan, because he worried that Soviet involvement migth spark a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States; Kewaliaofu, "Stalin he Mao Zedong," 21 (1992): 31.
96. Shi Zhe,
Zai lishi jüren shenbian,
398-403; Zhu Yuanshi, "Liu Shaoqi" 77-9; "Stalin's Remarks to Liu Shaoqi re Creating a Union of Asian Communist Parties," July 1949, quoted in Goncharov et al.,
Uncertain Partners,
232-3; "Yu Sidalin tanhua xiang Zhonggong Zhongyang Mao zhuxi de baogao" [Report to CCP CC and Chairman Mao about conversations with Stalin], July 27, 1949, CCA.
97. Sergei Goncharov, "Stalin tong Mao Zedong de duihua" [The conversation between Stalin and Mao Zedong],
Guoshi yanjiu cankao ziliao,
no. 1 (1993): 75.
98. "Sulian diyi ci duihua xuanyan" [The first Soviet proclamation on China], July 25, 1919; "Sulian di'er ci duihua xuanyan" [The second Soviet proclamation on China], September 27, 1920, both in
Zhonggong dangshi jiaoxue cankao ziliao: dang de chuangli shiqi
[Teaching reference material on CCP history: the period of party establishment], 135-7, 201-3.
99. In his report to the Seventh Party Congress, Mao made a special reference to Soviet proclamations regarding the abolition of all unequal treaties between czarist Russia and China:
Mao Zedong xuanji,
vol. 3, 1085.

 

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