ABSTRACT
The Chinese revolution had followed its own road and that the generalization of the Chinese experience was of theoretical value for the revolutionary movement in Asian countries. At the beginning of February 1949, the Soviet ambassador, Nikolai Roshchin, became the only accredited head of a mission in Nanking to follow the Kuomintang (KMT) government's request that the foreign missions move to Canton, which became the new seat of the KMT government from February 5. The Soviet Union's international credibility would certainly have suffered if Stalin had received Mao as the opponent of the KMT government in the civil war, a government with which the Soviet Union was bound by the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance and maintained diplomatic relations. Mao Zedong pulled off a masterpiece of Byzantine flattery by repeatedly insisting to Mikoyan on the observation that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had little experience in comparison with the Soviet Communist Party and by asking Moscow for instructions and leadership.
