Item COLD WAR 5/4 - Transcript of interview with Communist Party member Su Shaozhi, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Su Shaozhi, (member of the Chinese Communist Party), relating to the 'golden age' of Sino-Soviet relations, 1950-1956; the employment of Soviet experts, advisers and technicians in China, 1950-1959; the deterioration in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1956-1959; the Chinese reaction to the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Khrushchev's visit to China, Oct 1959; speculation on the possibility of China becoming a satellite of the USSR, [1953-1959]; Soviet opposition to the personality cult of Chairman Mao Zedong, 1956-1959; the Chinese nuclear development programme, [1958]-1964; the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the breakdown in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1959; Su Shaozhi's reaction to the rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1972-1979; Chairman Mao's foreign and domestic policies, 1949-1976; the rivalry between Mao and Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976; relations between the Chinese government and the Soviet regime of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982, especially during the Cultural Revolution, the reassertion of Maoist doctrines in China, 1965-1968. 14pp