798 { Notes to pages 113–127
- This is a key argument of Dikötter, Mao’s Famine. Dikötter’s study is based on
local archives in China, which often contained very frank descriptions of the unfolding
famine. - The speech and the response by Western communist parties is in The Anti-Stalin
Campaign and International Communism, New York: Columbia University Press,
- Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, zhong su guanxi huiyilu, 1956–1966 (Ten-year polem-
ical war, a memoir of Sino-Soviet relations), Vol. 1, Beijing: Zhongyang wenxuan chu-
banshe, 1999, pp. 3–5. The US embassy in Moscow quickly obtained and released a copy
of the speech. On the Sino-Soviet polemical debates of the 1950s and 1960s, see Donald
S. Zagoria, The Sino-Soviet Conflict 1956–1961, New York: Atheneum, 1969. - Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 2–5. Wu was the CCP’s record keeper on relations with
the Soviet Union during this period and provides a very detailed account of interactions. - Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 23–4.
- The Historical Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Beijing: Foreign
Languages Press, 1961, pp. 2, 18–9. - François Fejtő, A History of the People’s Democracies: Eastern Europe since Stalin,
Middlesex: Penguin, 1974, p. 105. Documents on the 1956 events in both Poland and
Hungary are in Paul E. Zinner, National Communism and Popular Revolt in East Europe,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. - Flora Lewis, A Case History of Hope, New York: Doubleday, 1958, pp. 182–5.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 35–6.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 39.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, Vol. 1, pp. 51–7.
- Zinner, National Communism, pp. 485–98.
- Regarding the formation of the Sino-Albanian entente in 1956–1957, see Daniel
Tretiak, “The Founding of the Sino-Albanian Entente,” China Quarterly, no. 10
(April–June 1962), pp. 123–43. - Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 60–1.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 68–73.
- In The Historical Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, pp. 32–3, 39.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 68.
- This section follows Yitzhak Shichor, The Middle East in China’s Foreign Policy,
1949–1979, London: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 60–9. - Shichor, Middle East, pp. 41, 45, 49, and 61.
- Shichor, Middle East, p. 49.
- Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 93–6.
- Dikötter, Mao’s Famine, p. 12.
- Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 101–2.
- Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, Boston: Little
Brown, 1974, pp. 256–7. - Quoted in O. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia: The Great Game,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1971, p. 422. - Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 118–9.
- Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 121.
- Quoted in Dikötter, Mao’s Famine, p. 13.