The Soviet Union and the Chinese Civil War 1945–1949
The Soviet Union and the Chinese Civil War 1945–1949

Summary/Abstract: The article examines in parallel the relations between the Soviet Union and China, as well as the civil conflict between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang in the period 1945–1949. The end of World War II did not solve the question of the country’s political future. In early 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed. Its end was marked on October 1, 1949 with the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. The article traces chronologically the military victories of the Chinese communists and their attempts to seek the assistance of the Soviet leadership. Moscow, for its part, had a volatile and ambiguous policy toward China, which was a function of the process of growing opposition between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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