TY - BOOK AU - PANTSOV Alexander V TI - How Stalin helped Mao Zedung become the leader: new archival documents on Moscow's role in the rise of Mao PY - 2005/// KW - CHINA KW - COMMUNISM KW - SOVIET UNION KW - FOREIGN POLICY N2 - Recently discovered archive documents suggest that Chinese Communism was strongly influenced by Soviet ideology and that during the 1920s and 1930s Moscow actively assisted the rise of Mao at the direct behest of Stalin ER -