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Western observers tended to view the Communist world as monolithic and ruled from Moscow. They were wrong. From the moment the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gained power, there were problems with their neighbours to the north. The CCP had won power despite Soviet leadership, not because of it. Stalin, who concluded a favourable treaty with Jiang, did not want the CCP to attempt to win power. Moscow’s leadership had been disastrous to the CCP in the inter-war years. Mao thought of himself as an ideologist on a par with Marx and Lenin. Stalin’s prestige was massive, and Mao respected him, but not to the point of unquestioning obedience.
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Swift, J. (2003). The Sino-Soviet Split. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_24
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