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Brothers in arms : the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1945-1963 / edited by Odd Arne Westad.

Contributor(s): Series: Cold War International History Project seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1998.Description: xxii, 404 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804734844 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804734844 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804734852 (pbk.)
  • 9780804734851 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.51047 21
LOC classification:
  • DK68.7.C5 B75 1998
Contents:
Series preface / James G. Hershberg. -- Preface / Odd Arne Westad. -- Introduction / Odd Arne Westad. -- The origins of the Sino-Soviet alliance / Niu Jun. -- Stalin, Mao, and the end of the Korean War / Kathryn Weathersby. -- Soviet advisors in China in the 1950s / Deborah A. Kaple. -- Sino-Soviet military cooperation / Sergei Goncharenko. -- The Sino-Soviet alliance and the United States / Odd Arne Westad. -- Sino-soviet economic cooperation / Shu Guang Zhang. --- Nikita Khrushchev and Sino-Soviet relations / Constantine Pleshakov. -- Chinese politics and the collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance / Chen Jian and Yang Kuisong -- Appendix: Some documents on Sino-Soviet relations, 1948 to 1963.
Summary: This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China and the Soviet Union - its creation, aims and instruments, its strains and conflicts, and its final collapse.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series preface / James G. Hershberg. -- Preface / Odd Arne Westad. -- Introduction / Odd Arne Westad. -- The origins of the Sino-Soviet alliance / Niu Jun. -- Stalin, Mao, and the end of the Korean War / Kathryn Weathersby. -- Soviet advisors in China in the 1950s / Deborah A. Kaple. -- Sino-Soviet military cooperation / Sergei Goncharenko. -- The Sino-Soviet alliance and the United States / Odd Arne Westad. -- Sino-soviet economic cooperation / Shu Guang Zhang. --- Nikita Khrushchev and Sino-Soviet relations / Constantine Pleshakov. -- Chinese politics and the collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance / Chen Jian and Yang Kuisong -- Appendix: Some documents on Sino-Soviet relations, 1948 to 1963.

This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China and the Soviet Union - its creation, aims and instruments, its strains and conflicts, and its final collapse.

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