The subject of this work is the presentation of two contradictory versions of memoirs of Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek, the president of the Republic of China’s until 1975, describing his twelve years’ stay in Soviet Union between 1925 and 1937. After his return to China, Chiang Ching-kuo assisted his father in his autocratic conduct of Chinese politics directed against Mao’s communists, at first in continental China and then in Taiwan. The first memoirs, published in 1947, glorify communist achievements in the Soviet Union during Chiang Ching-kuo stay there, but the second memoirs, on the contrary, vilify the communists and their deceitful, in the opinion of its author, ideology.

This work presents the French translation of the first memoirs, never yet fully translated into any European language, and points out the contradictions, omissions and distortions of reality in both of them. It tries to explain reasons lying behind those inconsistencies.