To build a Communist movement in China, 1917-1927 -- The "Soviet" experiment, 1927-1931 -- Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934 -- From the long march to the united front, 1934-1937 -- The road to war, 1937-1941 -- World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944 -- The United States, the Soviet Union and China, 1945 -- Strategies in conflict, 1946-1949 -- The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1959 -- The polarization of Communist politics, 1959-1965 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution II: protracted crisis, 1967-1968 -- China, the unsettled dragon, 1969-1972. |