A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War. Identifying the primary role of disputes over Marxist-Leninist ideology, Lüthi traces their devastating impact in sowing conflict between the two nations in the areas of economic development, party relations, and foreign policy. The source of this estrangement was Mao Zedong's ideological radicalization at a time when Soviet leaders, mainly Nikita Khrushchev, became committed to more pragmatic domestic and foreign policies.
Using a wide array of archival and documentary sources from three continents, Lüthi presents a richly detailed account of Sino-Soviet political relations in the 1950s and 1960s. He explores how Sino-Soviet relations were linked to Chinese domestic politics and to Mao's struggles with internal political rivals. Furthermore, Lüthi argues, the Sino-Soviet split had far-reaching consequences for the socialist camp and its connections to the nonaligned movement, the global Cold War, and the Vietnam War.
The Sino-Soviet Split provides a meticulous and cogent analysis of a major political fallout between two global powers, opening new areas of research for anyone interested in the history of international relations in the socialist world.
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2010Print ISBN
9780691135908
9780691129341
eBook ISBN
9781400837625
Historical
Background,
1921–1955
•
45
these
turbulences
led
to
the
emergence
and
eventually
the
consolidation
of
a
more
independent
party
around
Mao
Zedong.
Once
the
CCP
was
on
the
verge
of
establishing
political
power
in
all
of
China
in
the
late
1940s,
it
was
confronted
with
the
question
of
how
to
position
the
soon-to-be-
founded
PRC.
The
alliance
with
the
USSR
was
designed
to
reestablish
China
as
a
world
power,
but
it
also
made
the
PRC
a
part
of
the
socialist
camp.
As
a
result,
New
China
faced
a
series
of
security
problems
with
which
its
predecessor
had
not
been
confronted.
The
first
years
of
the
alli-
ance
witnessed
success
in
economic
cooperation
and,
after
Stalin’s
death,
also
in
international
politics.
But
Khrushchev
was
not
able
to
remove
completely
the
negative
aura
of
his
predecessor’s
legacy.
Chinese
memo-
ries
of
Stalin’s
Janus-faced
policies
during
the
Korean
War
and
his
insis-
tence
on
unequal
treaties
were
difficult
to
dispel.
All
of
this,
however,
cannot
explain
the
sharp
ideological
antagonism
that
would
undermine
and
eventually
ruin
the
alliance
by
1966.
It
was
only
Mao’s
ideological
radicalization,
still
inchoate
in
1955,
and
Khrushchev’s
de-Stalinization
in
early
1956,
the
subject
of
the
following
chapter,
that
set
a
train
of
events
into
motion
which
eventually
undermined
the
alliance.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Terms
- Transliteration and Diacritical Marks
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE: Historical Background, 1921–1955
- CHAPTER TWO: The Collapse of Socialist Unity, 1956–1957
- CHAPTER THREE: Mao's Challenges, 1958
- CHAPTER FOUR: Visible Cracks, 1959
- CHAPTER FIVE: World Revolution and the Collapse of Economic Relations, 1960
- CHAPTER SIX: Ambiguous Truce, 1961–1962
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Mao Resurgent, 1962–1963
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The American Factor, 1962–1963
- CHAPTER NINE: Khrushchev's Fall and the Collapse of Party Relations, 1963–1966
- CHAPTER TEN: Vietnam and the Collapse of the Military Alliance, 1964–1966
- Conclusion
- Essay on the Sources
- Index
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