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Bibliographic Description

Чан Кайши / Панцов, А. – М. : Молодая гвардия, 2019. – (Жизнь замечательных людей). – ISBN 978-5-235-04202-5.

Author
Панцов, А.
Publisher
Молодая гвардия
Year of publication
2019
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), who stood at the head of the Republic of China for almost half a century, remains to this day a mysterious figure. His turbulent revolutionary, diplomatic and personal life remained outside the scope of openly biased publications. Alexander Pantsov, the well-known sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, and author of biographies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping (in the "ZhZL" series) that were highly praised both in Russia and abroad, has for the first time undertaken a large-scale account of the life of this outstanding political and military figure of the 20th century. Pantsov's new book — based on previously inaccessible materials from the archives of Russia, China, Taiwan and the United States, as well as on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries and documents from the repositories of the Hoover Institution (USA), the Taiwanese Academy of History, the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, the Central Committee of the CPSU, and the CIA — reveals the phenomenon of this enigmatic leader of the Chinese nationalists. A man who turned China from a semi-colony into a world power, but lost the struggle for power in mainland China to Mao Zedong. Of undoubted interest, too, are Chiang Kai-shek's diplomatic battles, worthy of a detective novel, with the leaders of the world's great powers — Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon — as well as the particulars of the everyday life of the Chinese people. The book is intended for the widest possible circle of readers.

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