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An extensively researched comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kaishek one of the twentieth centurys most powerful and controversial figures

Chiang Kaishek 18871975 led the Republic of China for almost fifty years starting in 1926 He was the architect of a new republican China a hero of the Second World War and a faithful ally of the United States Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 15 million innocent people

This critical biography is based on Chiang Kaisheks unpublished diaries his extensive personal files from the Russian archives and the Russian files of his relatives associates and foes Alexander V Pantsov sheds new light on the role played by the Russians in Chiangs rise to power in the 1920s and throughout his political careerand indeed the Russian influence on the Chinese revolutionary movement as a wholeas well as on Chiangs complex relationship with top officials of the United States It is a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin Roosevelt Hitler Churchill and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world