ABSTRACT
Mao Zedong teacher of world revolution had been planning a meeting with comrade Stalin in Moscow since the spring of 1947, but had repeatedly postponed it as a rule at Stalin's request. The most important goal of the visit in Moscow was to conclude a new treaty. They both considered themselves to be allied to one another by Marxist-Leninist ideology with its eschatological belief in the victory of the world revolution. They were, however, both also conscious of the irritations that had arisen in their bilateral relations in the past because both sides had again and again given priority to their own national interests as they also continued to do. In the talk on principles of January 22, Stalin and Mao Zedong agreed to give the two foreign ministers, Zhou Enlai and Andrei Vyshinskii, responsibility in the negotiations that were about to begin for the treaty of alliance.
