Alexander V. Pantsov is Professor of History and the holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He has published fifteen books and numerous book chapters and articles on China and Russia. Among them are The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 (University of Hawai’i Press), Mao: The Real Story (Simon & Schuster), Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life (Oxford University Press), and Ardent Patriot: Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolution in China (forthcoming).