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The Sino-Soviet split

Lorenz M. Lüthi

2010,2008

Overview

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. InThe 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 Splitprovides 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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 20th century / American University speech / Anti-imperialism / Anti-revisionism / Asia / Berlin Crisis of 1961 / Big lie / Bombard the Headquarters / China / China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union / Cold War / Cold War (1985–91) / Communism / Communism & Socialism / Communism -- History -- 20th century / Communist propaganda / Counter-revolutionary / Cultural Revolution / Days of May / De-Stalinization / Dean Rusk / Deng Xiaoping / Edgar Snow / Europe / Fellow traveller / First Taiwan Strait Crisis / Foreign relations / Gao Gang / Great Leap Forward / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / China / HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union / Hundred Flowers Campaign / Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / Ich bin ein Berliner / Imperialism / Imre Nagy / Japanese Communist Party / John F. Kennedy / Khrushchevism / Kuomintang / Lin Biao / Liu Shaoqi / Luo Ruiqing / Mao Zedong / Marxism–Leninism / Mehmet Shehu / Missile gap / New class / New Economic Policy / Nikita Khrushchev / On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences / Peaceful coexistence / Peng Dehuai / Peng Zhen / People's war / Polish October / Political history / Political Science / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism / Potemkin village / Rao Shushi / Russia & the Former Soviet Union / Russia (Pre- & Post-Soviet Union) / Second Taiwan Strait Crisis / Second United Front / Security dilemma / Sino-Indian War / Sino-Soviet border conflict / Sino-Soviet conflict / Sino-Soviet relations / Sino-Soviet split / Socialist Education Movement / Soviet Empire / Soviet Union / Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China / Soviet Union–United States relations / Soviet working class / Soviet–Albanian split / Splendid isolation / Stalinism / Superiority (short story) / Trofim Lysenko / U.S.S.R / Unequal treaty / Wang Ming / Warfare / World Peace Council / Xinjiang conflict / Zhou Enlai
• ISBN: 1400837626, 0691135908, 9780691135908, 9781400837625, 0691129347, 9780691129341