THE SITUATION IN TIBET IN THE 1950S: POLICY OF MAO ZEDONG AND THE DALAI LAMA

Abstract

In the article on the basis of documents and memoirs, as well as using the literature, which deals with an important moment in the history of modern China, the author studies the events in the middle of the last century that led to the PLA troops entering Tibet, and opinions of PRC Chairman Mao Zedong and the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. There also are studied the situation in Tibet, the actions of the Chinese and Tibetan leaders, the reasons for the flight of the Dalai Lama to India in 1959.