Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet Split: Ideological Dilemma

224 Pages·2014·2.344 MB·English

by  Mingjiang Li

Mao’s China and the Sino- Soviet Split
The Sino- Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the
Cold War. Why did the Sino-S oviet alliance, hailed by its creators as “unbreak-
able,” “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-S oviet
split. But at the same time new questions and puzzles have also emerged. The
scholarly debate on this issue is still fierce. This book, the result of extensive
research on declassified documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and on
numerous other new Chinese materials, sheds new light on the problem and
makes a significant contribution to the debate. More than simply an empirical
case study, by theorising the concept of the ideological dilemma, Mingjiang Li’s
book attempts to address the relationship between ideology and foreign policy
and discusses such pressing questions as why it is that an ideology can some-
times effectively dictate foreign policy, whilst at other times exercises almost no
significant influence at all.
This book will be of essential reading to anyone interested in Chinese- Soviet
history, Cold War history, International Relations and the theory of ideology.
Mingjiang Li is Assistant Professor at S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Mao’s China and the
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Ideological dilemma
Mingjiang Li
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China–Foreign relations–1949–1976. 5. Communism–China–History–
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