Your studies of socialism/communism their interrelationship is more than merely commendable.
May I suggest a book to help you better understand the Chinese, the Mongols and even the Russians.
Read the History of Gengis Khan by Jack Weatherford.
another book is the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Both tell you how creative rulers think and conquer established, well established societies.
As an aside, the planning outline created by Sun Tzu is still in use today by all modern armies (in the US as the Operations Order (The D-Day order was some five feet thick)), with the original five paragraph order almost unchanged.
The Situation of Friendly and Enemy Forces.
The Mission.
The Execution of the Mission.
The Supply, Support and Transport.
The Command Structure and Signals/Communications.
Though the Russians added an additional paragraph that is quite reasonable, and referenced by Sun Tzu elsewhere. It is concealment, obfuscation (such as smoke) and deception.
The philosophical descendent of Sun Tzu, Sun Bin (or Pin), wrote his own Art of War, thought lost, but was rediscovered in 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Pin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Bin’s_Art_of_War
For the most part European tactical warfare developed far more based on technology, until Napoleon’s strategies and tactics of modern warfare were described and elaborated on by Clausewitz, in his still remarkably readable and sensible “On War”.
Sixty years later, Alfred Thayer Mahan did the equivalent for naval warfare with his The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890).
Finally, the great compilation by the father and son team of R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy, who produced The Encyclopedia Of Military History, which is an exhaustive and brilliant examination of military conflict all the way from the ancient world. An essential reference.
Sun Bin’s tactics for taking siege of a town is exactly the technique that Genghis Khan used.
Send in a medium to small army to lay siege. After they look like they are getting their asses handed to them they retreat and let the enemy pursue them. They know the endurance of their horses and at the point where they are just about to give out, they meet with Khan’s main force who has been waiting with fresh horses and they annihilate the enemy, then return to the city which is now totally defenseless.