Sino-Soviet Split
Thesis: The reasons for the Sino Soviet split can be placed upon the political, economic and social difference between the nations; especially the ideological differences.
Political
Long Term * Stalin feared Mao as a rival for the leadership of the communist world * Didn’t want the Cold War to spread to Asia * Stalin underestimated the CCP * Believed the GMD would be stronger, * Wanted the communists to unite * Even when the victory of the CCP seemed inevitable. * Mao became convinced that Stalin wanted a divided and weak China to leave the USSR dominant in Asia. * He saw Stalin's policies as self-interested rather than true revolutionary doctrines * The
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* Sino-Soviet border war, 1969 * The Chinese denounced the Soviets for not returning territory taken by the Russians in the last century. * In 1969, the frontier dispute erupted into a proper war. By August of the same year, there was a clear possibility of all-out war between the two Communist states, and thus the danger of the conflict turning nuclear. Fighting continued sporadically throughout most of the year. * In the end there was no escalation to a nuclear war. However the war dad brought the two greatest communist countries to the brink of it. 1969 is seen by n *
Economic
Long Term * The
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* “Chinese soldiers would fight the Americans for Stalin in exchange for Soviet technology and equipment” (Chang and Halliday 373).
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The history of Sino-Soviet relations can be traced back hundreds of years, starting with the initial Mongol invasion and devastation of the Kievan Rus’ principalities in the mid-thirteenth century. With time, the rise of the Russian Empire and Czarist rule reversed the infrastructural and cultural destruction caused by the Mongol hordes; by the advent of the twentieth century, the reformed Russian state had begun encroaching on Chinese territory while holding a very strong, influential grasp on the slowly collapsing Imperial Chinese regime. However, with the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the creation of the Soviet Union, and the institution of a communist government and administration, the nature of