MAO, Zedong (signed).

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Photograph album chronicling a visit to China by Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, and other Soviet delegates. Signed by Mao: a lavishly produced diplomatic presentation album, presented by Mao and other top Chinese Communist Party leaders to Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (1895-1975), Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1955 and subsequently Premier of the Soviet Union. The Khruschev-Bulganin visit crowned five years of close co-operation between Beijing and its most important ally.The 1954 visit, lasting from 29 September to 12 October and spanning China's national day, was the first top-level Soviet visit to Mao's China. The fine photographs show, on the Chinese side, Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De. Nikolai Bulganin, resplendent in his marshal's uniform, appears at Khrushchev's right hand.The album opens with an official group photograph, taken in the Great Hall of the People, followed by scenes of the Soviet delegation at Beijing's airport and a photograph of Mao and Khrushchev shaking hands, Dong Biwu and Zhu De smiling in the background. Photographers were also on hand to capture the Soviet delegation watching the National Day parade from the Tiananmen rostrum. More informal parts of the visit are represented by a visit to an exhibition and shots of Peking Opera performers.Khrushchev and Bulganin's diplomatic charm offensive cemented the unity of the communist bloc and gave Beijing more breathing room to press claims to Kuomintang-controlled Taiwan. Fro

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