Cold war and revolution: Soviet-American rivalry and the origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946

by Odd Arne Westad

Based on recently declassified Chinese and American government material, this study reveals how the onset of American-Soviet rivalry shaped the outcome of the Chinese Civil War. It offers an original and controversial interpretation of the Chinese Revolution of the 1940s.

Genres: China

260 pages, Hardcover

First published September 29, 1987

About the author

Odd Arne Westad, FBA, is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is currently the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Reviews

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well-argued new look at relations between Nationalist China, the Chinese Communists, the Soviet Union, and the USA in the months right after the end of World War Two.