Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet split : ideological dilemma / Mingjiang Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Mingjiang.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series ; 79.

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

China.

International relations.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.

China--Politics and government--1949-1976.

Politics and government.

China--Foreign relations--1949-1976.

Communism--China--History--20th century.

Communism.

History.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War. Why did the Sino-Soviet alliance, hailed by its creators as "unbreakable" and "eternal," and as "brotherly solidarity," break up? Why did their relations eventually evolve into open hostility and military confrontation? With the publication of several works on the subject in the past decade, we are now in a better position to understand and explain the origins of the Sino-Soviet split. But at the same time new questions and puzzles have also emerged. The scholarly debate on this issue is still fierce. This book, the result of extensive research on declassified documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and on numerous other new Chinese materials, sheds new light on the problem and to make a significant contribution to the debate.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Ideological dilemma in international politics 12

3 The Soviet 20th Party Congress and emerging disputes in 1958 21

4 Mao's Great Leap Forward and Sino-Soviet disputes, 1959-1960 53

5 Temporary calm and deterioration in relations, 1960-1962 80

6 The growth of domestic radicalism and polemics with Moscow, 1963-1964 96

7 Short-lived détente and the end of party relations, 1965-1966 118

8 Sino-Soviet confrontation during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 135

9 Conclusions 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415698368

0415698367

9780203126325

0203126327

OCLC:

741542070