V. Vladimirov | Yan’an Diary

“Yan’an Diary” is a non-fiction book written by a Soviet, Peter Vladimirov, who was stationed at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as a liaison officer of the Communist International and a military correspondent of TASS. The book records the author’s observations and feelings in Yan’an from May 1942 to November 1945, from his own subjective perspective. After Vladimirov’s death, the diary was compiled by his son V. P. Vlasov and published in the Soviet Union in 1973 under the title “Special Region of China: 1942-1945” (Особый район Китая. 1942—1945) by the Moscow Literary News Agency. In 1975, the Doubleday Publishing Company of New York, USA, published the English translation, “The Vladimirov diaries”.