ABSTRACT
The position of central authority which the Communist party of the Soviet Union held in the Communist world movement had been called in question by the revolt in Yugoslavia, the revolution in Hungary and the reformist movements of Poland and Czechoslovakia. Peking's break with Moscow shattered it. Mao Tse-tung to all intents stated his firm agreement with the decisions of the Twentieth Congress when, in November 1957, as head of the Chinese delegation, he took part in the conference of sixty-four Communist parties assembled in Moscow to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In the public challenge to Moscow conveyed by Chou En-lai, a long-fermenting resentment at the Soviet Union's attitude to China had come to the surface. Stalin, whom Peking once again glorified, had hardly shown himself to be a genuine friend of the Chinese revolution, or, in particular, of Mao Tse-tung.
