USSR's influence in Southeast Asia and her Attitudes to Chin

• Stalin did not like Mao's interpretation of Marxism
• Stalin gave Mao limited support during the Chinese Civil War
• Stalin

  • Feared Mao as competition
  • Did not want to see the Cold war Spread
  • Was concerned about Mao's demands to regain Chinese territory (Manchuria)
  • Underestimated the CCP
• Mao

  • Suspicious of Stalin - Though he wanted a weak China so the Soviets could become dominant in Asia
  • Thought Stalin self interested as opposed to a true revolutionary.
• Following Mao's victory in 1950, he visited Moscow and the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance was signed.