Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s - Paperbackby Shen Zhihua (Author) This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua's best selling Chinese language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non heroic accounts of the Korean War. The author combined information detailed in Soviet era diplomatic documents (released after the