Sarah Paine Reveals How Russia, Under Stalin, Sabotaged China's Rise 📉

In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down for over a century. This lecture was particularly interesting to me because, in my opinion, the Chinese Civil War is 1 of the top 3 most important events of the 20th century. And to understand why it transpired as it did, you need to understand Stalin’s role in the whole thing.

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* Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-russo-chinese
* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-paine-how-russia-sabotaged-chinas-rise/id1516093381?i=1000734455820
* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Iz0Fi2wxLDpSEyfHft01E?si=quCUygx8Txq5r8VC1xZUJg

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00:00:00 – How Russia took advantage of China's weakness
00:23:46 – Reversal of the balance of power
00:34:39 – Russian imperialism
00:46:10 – China’s and Russia's existential problems
01:05:42 – Q&A: Sino-Soviet split
01:23:29 – Stalin's lessons from WW2