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1879- 1953

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Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

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Korean War, 1950-1953

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Sino-Soviet Relations

Kim Il Sung, 1978

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1912- 1994

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Making of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1950

Photograph of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, 1945

Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950

Chinese troops cross the Yalu River, 1950, to fight in the Korean War.

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Photograph of Zhou Enlai in 1972.

Zhou, Enlai

1898- 1976

Gyeongbokgung

East Asia

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Shtykov, Terentiĭ Fomich

1907- 1964

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Andrei Gromyko at the UN, 1981

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1909- 1989

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May 31, 1950	Ciphered Telegram No. 9849, Gromyko to the Soviet Ambassador, Pyongyang Gromyko reports Stalin's approval of Kim Il Sung's request for the prompt delivery of medical supplies to North Korea.
November 14, 1945	Meeting of J.V. Stalin with V. Gomulka and G. Mintz Regarding the Situation in Poland Stalin advises Polish officials Gomulka and Mintz on the political and economic situation in Poland.
May 27, 1946	Soviet Record of Conversation of Gen. I.V. Stalin with Marshal Tito, 27-28 May 1946 Stalin and Tito discuss the economic situation of Yugoslavia and a plan for the Soviet Union providing assistance for further industrial and military development. Yugoslav foreign relations are also discussed.
June 21, 1946	Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, No. 1286-525, On Development of Soviet Atomic Weapons Resolution outlining the work of the newly established Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11). Atomic bombs are referred to in the resolution as “jet engines S,” in two versions, S-1 and S-2 (abbreviated as RDS-1 and RDS-2). RDS-1 meant the analog of the first U.S. plutonium-239 implosion type atomic bomb tested on 16 July 1945 in New Mexico RDS-2 signified the analog of the uranium-235 gun type bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
April 9, 1946	Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, Establishing Design Bureau No. 11 Resolution establishing Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11), which was the Soviet analog of the secret wartime American nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
April 27, 1978	CPSU CC Politburo Transcript, 27 April 1978 (excerpt) The CPSU CC Politburo discusses recent negotiations with US Secretary of State Vance regarding Soviet-American relations and Soviet criticism of the Carter administration’s foreign policy and position on strategic weapons.
January 14, 1949	Cable, Filippov [Stalin] to Cde. Mao Zedong Stalin responds to Mao's 11 January telegram rejecting the peace proposal from the Chinese Nationalist Goverment in Nanjing.
May 13, 1950	Ciphered Telegram, Roshchin to Cde. Filippov [Stalin] The telegram relays a request from Mao, conveyed via Chinese Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai, seeking Stalin’s “personal clarifications” of his stand on a potential North Korean action to reunify the country. Mao sought the information after hearing a report from Kim, who had arrived that day in the Chinese capital for a secret two-day visit and clearly claimed that he had received Stalin’s blessing.
May 14, 1950	Ciphered Telegram No. 8600, Vyshinsky to Mao Zedong The cable contains Stalin’s personal response to Mao's 13 May telegram. Using the code-name “Filippov,” Stalin confirms his agreement with the North Korean proposal to “move toward reunification,” contingent on Beijing’s agreement.
March 12, 1962	Alexei Adzhubei's Account of His Visit to Washington to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Alexei Adzhubei, Khrushchev’s son-in-law and the editor-in-chief of Izvestia, reports on his meetings with US journalists and officials in Washington, DC. Especially significant was his 30 January meeting with President John F. Kennedy in which Kennedy compared the communist revolution in Cuba with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution suppressed by the Soviet Union. Adzhubei also described Kennedy's comments on German reunification.