1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
1893- 1976
East Asia
1898- 1976
1898- 1969
Southeast Asia
North America
1879- 1953
1912- 1994
1898- 1974
April 15, 1959
Mao discusses issues related to Tibet, including his conversations with the Dalai Lama and foreign opposition to Chinese communist actions in the region.
December 1, 1958
Mao argues that the Chinese communists can regard imperialists and reactionaries as "dead, paper, and tofu tigers" because they have become backward and unrevolutionary. But on the other hand, since tigers can eat people, China still needs to think strategically and engage in class struggle.
November 25, 1958
First, Mao asserts that the Western world will eventually splinter. Second, he notes that proletariat is gaining new allies every day.
June 1958
Mao calls for China to develop nuclear weapons within ten years.
May 17, 1958
Mao contrasts the unity that exists between socialist countries with the troubles of capitalist and imperialist countries like the United States.
May 16, 1958
Mao reminds the Chinese communists to respect the Soviet experts, who are visiting their country, as comrades and brothers.
November 18, 1957
Mao discusses ways that socialism is overwhelming capitalism and describes the reactionaries of the world as "paper tigers." He urges his fellow socialists to take their enemies seriously and to wipe them out one by one.
November 17, 1957
While in Moscow, Mao speaks to Chinese living, studying, and working in the Soviet Union.
November 16, 1957
Mao praises the results of an international meeting that 64 different Communist and Workers Parties attended in 1957.
1956
Mao discusses Stalin in excerpts from "The Origin and Development of the Differences between the Leadership of the CPSU and Ourselves."