Beschreibung:
Based on archival materials from several countries, especially China, , interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino–Soviet alliance from the end of the World War II through 1959, when the alliance ended as a result of foreign and domestic policies. Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959: A New History is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and offers the first comprehensive account of it from a Chinese perspective.
Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and domestic policies. This book is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and is the first book published in English to examine it from a Chinese perspective.
Chapter 1: Political and Economic Foundations, 1945-1949
Chapter 2: Conflicts of Interest and the Creation of Alliance Treaty, 1949-1950
Chapter 3: Differences and Cooperation during the Korean War, 1950-1953
Chapter 4: Khrushchev’s China Policy and the Honeymoon, 1954-1956
Chapter 5: The 20th Soviet Party Congress and the CCP’s Eighth Congress, 1956
Chapter 6: The Hungarian Crisis and the CCP’s Political Support to the Soviets, 1956-1957
Chapter 7: The Soviet Aid and Restrictions to China’s Nuclear Weapons Program, 1954-1960
Chapter 8: Mao, Khrushchev and the Moscow Conference, 1957
Chapter 9: Effects of the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Commune Movement and Disagreements over Domestic Policies, 1957-1959
Chapter 10: The Bombardment of Jinmen, the Sino-Indian Border Conflicts and Disagreements over Foreign Policies, 1958-1959