China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present
China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present

Author: Thomas P. Bernstein

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780739142226

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In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.

China, the United States and the Soviet Union
China, the United States and the Soviet Union

Author: Robert S. Ross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1315287633

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This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology.

Mao's China and the Cold War
Mao's China and the Cold War

Author: Jian Chen

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0807898902

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This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.

Friends and Enemies
Friends and Enemies

Author: Gordon H. Chang

Publisher: Modern America

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Winner of the 1991 Stuart L. Bernath Prize, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. ---------- "A swift-paced, absorbing account of the dangerous political maneuvers that engaged America with both China and the Soviet Union during the years between 1948 and 1972...Chang's account is impressively documented with once-classified records...This is a scrupulously detailed history, scholarly and at the same time filled with incident, insight, and personality...Chang paints a fascinating picture."--San Francisco Chronicle

The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950: The Arduous Road to the Alliance
The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950: The Arduous Road to the Alliance

Author: Dieter Heinzig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1317454499

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Drawing on a wealth of new sources, this work documents the evolving relationship between Moscow and Peking in the twentieth century. Using newly available Russian and Chinese archival documents, memoirs written in the 1980s and 1990s, and interviews with high-ranking Soviet and Chinese eyewitnesses, the book provides the basis for a new interpretation of this relationship and a glimpse of previously unknown events that shaped the Sino-Soviet alliance. An appendix contains translated Chinese and Soviet documents - many of which are being published for the first time. The book focuses mainly on Communist China's relationship with Moscow after the conclusion of the treaty between the Soviet Union and Kuomingtang China in 1945, up until the signing of the treaty between Moscow and the Chinese Communist Party in 1950. It also looks at China's relationship with Moscow from 1920 to 1945, as well as developments from 1950 to the present. The author reevaluates existing sources and literature on the topic, and demonstrates that the alliance was reached despite disagreements and distrust on both sides and was not an inevitable conclusion. He also shows that the relationship between the two Communist parties was based on national interest politics, and not on similar ideological convictions.