Princeton studies in international history and politics
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-360) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Historical background, 1921-1955 -- The collapse of socialist unity, 1956-1957 -- Mao's challenges, 1958 -- Visible cracks, 1959 -- World revolution and the collapse of economic relations, 1960 -- Ambiguous truce, 1961-1962 -- Mao resurgent, 1962-1963 -- The American factor, 1962-1963 -- Khrushchev's fall and the collapse of party relations, 1963-1966 -- Vietnam and the collapse of the military alliance, 1964-1966
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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