Uncertain Partners
Subtitle: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Studies in Intl Security and Arm Control)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780804725217
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Military - Korean War; International Relations - General; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; China; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Korea; Political Science / International Relations
First sentence: Like the imperial Russian rulers before him, Joseph Stalin after the Second World War strove to dominate the periphery of the Soviet Union and to recover lost lands and influence in Asia, as well as in Europe and the Middle East.