 | 6. The visits of such delegations often were featured in the official magazine of the Soviet-Chinese Friendship Society. See
People's China
(Beijing), 1950-1953.
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| 7. A typical list of Soviet contributions to China can be found in an interview with I. V. Arkhipov in
USSR-China in the Changing World
(Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1989), 44-5.
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| 8. It appears that some people were sent for as little as two weeks, others for as long as two years.
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| 9. O. B. Borisov and B. T. Koloskov,
Sovetsko-Kitaiskie otnosheniia 1945-1977gg
[Soviet-Chinese relations, 1945-1977], 2nd ed. (Moscow: Mysl, 1977), especially chapter 2; L. V. Filatov,
Ekonomicheskaia otsenka nauchno-tekhnicheskoy pomoshchi Sovetskogo Soyuza Kitaiu 1949-1966
[An economic evaluation of scientific and technical assistance of the Soviet Union to China, 1949-1966] (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
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| 10. "An account of the work of Soviet specialist-advisors in the PRC for the first quarter of 1954," TsKhSD, f. 5, op. 28, roll 5113, no. 187 (January-October 1954), 1-97.
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| 11. Ibid.
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| 12. Fedorenko worked with Arkhipov in the early years as his interpreter. About forty years later, he lamented that "The development of relations between the USSR and China was done, inconceivably, without specialists: China specialists, people who knew the history and the contemporary situation of our great neighbor, the spiritual life of the Chinese people," in N. T. Fedorenko, "Stalin i Mao Tszedun" [Stalin and Mao Zedong],
Novatia i noveishatia istoritia
5 (1992): 98-113, 109.
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| 13. TsKhSD, f. 5, op. 28, roll 5104, no. 138 (January-October 1954).
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| 14. The titles were: "On the tasks of ideological work of party organizations," "Tasks of the department of science and culture of local and party organs in fulfilling the decree of the September plenum of the Central Committee CPSU," and "Soviet literature at the current stage.''
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| 15. TsKhSD, f. 5, op. 49, roll 8862, no. 41 (April-December 1957), 146.
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| 16. The best memoir is M. A. Klochko,
Soviet Scientist in Red China,
trans. Andrew McAndrew (New York: Praeger, 1964). Others include A. A. Arsent'ev,
Zvezdy nad Ki-
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