The Making of Communist China
Stalin kept his options open throughout the political jostling within China in the 1920s and 30s, sometimes courting Chiang and the Nationalists while simultaneously providing advice, direction, and aid to the CCP. Snow’s influential book Red Star Over China (1937) portrayed Mao as a great man and a man of destiny. Dikötter describes it as little more than communist propaganda.
- ▪Stalin kept his options open throughout the political jostling within China in the 1920s and 30s, sometimes courting Chiang and the Nationalists while simultaneously providing advice, direction, and aid to the CCP.
- ▪Snow’s influential book Red Star Over China (1937) portrayed Mao as a great man and a man of destiny.
- ▪Dikötter describes it as little more than communist propaganda.
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Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity By Frank Dikötter Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026, 384 pages, $26Dutch historian and Hoover Institution fellow Frank Dikötter has emerged as the contemporary West’s best chronicler of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and in the process has exposed some of the tragic failures of U.S. policy toward China, especially during the crucial years of China’s Civil War between 1945 and 1949. Dikötter’s new book Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity explores the history of the CCP’s climb to power, from its establishment by the Soviet-controlled Comintern in 1921 to the internal struggle for power within China against the Nationalists and several warlords in the 1920s, 30s, and early 40s, culminating in its…
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