The great Chinese revolutionary democrat Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) is one of the outstanding historical figures whose interest in life and work does not decrease over time, but, on the contrary, increases. A number of areas of foreign historiography of the 30s - 60s devoted to his life and work have already been analyzed in our scientific press .1 This article examines only a few books and articles by foreign authors published in recent years, which most fully reflect the main trends of modern foreign historiography about this outstanding figure of the Chinese and world national liberation movement. The most typical representative of the direction that studies Sun Yat-sen's policy towards the Soviet state is the American professor K. M. Wilbur. Wilbur's book is the most comprehensive and well-documented foreign work on Sun Yat-sen 2 . The author had access to the Kuomintang archives in Taiwan, used materials from the closed collections of British, American and French archives, and made extensive use of not only American, European, Japanese and Taiwanese literature, but also to a large extent books and publications by Soviet authors. Despite the seemingly unbiased and pointedly objectivist "academic" style of presentation, the very title of Wilbur's book is " Sun Yat-sen. Disillusioned patriot " - does not contain an objective assessment of the author of the hero of his monograph. In the" Preface " to the book, patteringly noting the merits of Sun Yat-sen in the struggle to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, his speeches against the Chinese militarists and even the anti-imperialist position that he held in the last years of his life, the author draws 1 Tikhvinsky S. L. Sun Yat-sen's Foreign policy in the coverage of American Historiography. - Voprosy istorii, 1961, N 11; his own review of the book "Sun Yat-sen and Communism"by Leng Shaochuan and N. D. Palmer. - Peoples of Asia and Africa, 1962, N 4; his. Bourgeois historiography of Sun Yat-sen's struggle for national indepe ... Read more