Rodric Braithwaite

China’s role in Soviet policy-making

Stalin and his successors’ struggle with the US and China reflected conflicting Soviet ambitions to be a superpower and to lead world revolution, says Sergey Radchenko

Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung in a painting by Dmitry Nalbandyan entitled ‘The Great Friendship’, 1950. [Alamy]

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