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In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il - Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed on the offensive, all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp, America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of the past, and Mao's forces had assumed control over the world's most populous country. In fact, of course, the century's end brought the widespread triumph of political and economic freedom over its
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Lewis Gaddis
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited; Allen Lane
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780713999129
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Political Science, World History
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (19 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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