U.S. President Donald Trump has swiped another page from the authoritarian playbook. His verbal assault on Ukrainian ...

At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe—at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian ...

In fact, a main topic, acknowledged or not, will be the Mao-Khrushchev rift and what to do about it. But the agricultural problem on the agenda is more than camouflage. Amid their ideological ...

We had Khrushchev roaring at the Chinese communist early in 1964. He called Mao Tsetung a dogmatist, an Anti-Marxist, and raised against Peking’s bid for world communist mastery and claims of ...

When Khrushchev visited Beijing in 1958, Mao refused proposals for military cooperation. When Khrushchev paid a visit to China in September 1959, he was coldly received and left the country on the ...

Khrushchev and Mao had different views on how a communist country should be governed. Khrushchev was determined to wipe out hardliner Stalinist policies, while Mao adopted many of them.

In the second half of the 1950s, Mao gradually turned his back on peaceful coexistence and returned to a more radical vision of international politics based on class struggle. As recent historical ...

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Khrushchev described the scene ... Ritual humiliation was also a specialty of Mao Zedong. He forced Zhou Enlai – an architect of Chinese communism and the People’s Republic’s longest ...