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 ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Communism.

China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

China.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.

Soviet Union.

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

China--Foreign relations--1949-1976.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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"", ""eternal"", and as representing ""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

Contents:

Front Cover; Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet Split; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ideological dilemma in international politics; 3. The Soviet 20th Party Congress and emerging disputes in 1958; 4. Mao's Great Leap Forward and Sino-Soviet disputes, 1959-1960; 5. Temporary calm and deterioration in relations, 1960-1962; 6. The growth of domestic radicalism and polemics with Moscow, 1963-1964; 7. Short-lived détente and the end of party relations, 1965-1966; 8. Sino-Soviet confrontation during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969; 9. Conclusions; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-45543-4

1-283-45850-0

9786613458506

1-136-45544-2

0-203-12632-7

9780203126325

OCLC:

798532201