Sino-Soviet dispute

The topic Sino-Soviet dispute is discussed in the following articles:

major reference

  • TITLE: 20th-century international relations (politics)
    SECTION: The Sino-Soviet split
    A still more energetic U.S. riposte would await the end of Eisenhower’s term, but “Mr. Khrushchev’s boomerang” (as Dulles termed Sputnik) had an immediate and disastrous impact on Soviet relations with the other Communist giant, China. Under their 1950 treaty of friendship, solidarity, and mutual assistance, Soviet technical aid flowed to Peking during the Korean War and helped...

affected by Brezhnev Doctrine

  • TITLE: 20th-century international relations (politics)
    SECTION: Détente as realism
    ...Needless to say, the Chinese were fearful that the Brezhnev Doctrine might be applied to them. In 1969 they accused the U.S.S.R. of “social imperialism” and provoked hundreds of armed clashes on the borders of Sinkiang and Manchuria. Soviet forces arrayed against China, already raised from 12 weak divisions in 1961 to 25 full ones, now grew to 55 divisions backed by 120...
history of


  • TITLE: China
    SECTION: Foreign policy
    ...potentially dangerous consequences in eastern Europe, and he chafed at Khrushchev’s warning to other communist parties not to let a willful leader have his way unchecked. Thus, a new situation in Sino-Soviet relations began to emerge, in which antagonisms based on different national traditions, revolutionary experiences, and levels of development that had previously been glossed over broke...
  • TITLE: China
    SECTION: Readjustment and reaction, 1961–65
    Beijing’s main target was Moscow. A Soviet-U.S. crisis in Cuba (October 1962) had coincided with the Sino-Indian struggle, and in both cases the Chinese believed the Soviet Union had acted unreliably and had become “capitulators” of the worst sort. For the next months, polemicists in Beijing and Moscow publicly engaged in barbed exchanges. When the Soviet Union signed the Nuclear...

Cold War

  • TITLE: 20th-century international relations (politics)
    SECTION: Total Cold War and the diffusion of power, 1957–72
    ...from the war, also achieved dynamic economic growth in the 1960s, reducing their relative inferiority to the United States and prompting their governments to exercise a greater independence. The Sino-Soviet split, perhaps the most important event in postwar diplomacy, shattered the unity of the Communist bloc, and Third World countries often showed themselves resistant to superpower coercion...


    SECTION: The 20th Party Congress and after
    ...signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in August 1963. Direct communications were established between Moscow and Washington. If relations with the West improved, the opposite was true of those with China. Soviet and eastern European technicians withdrew from China in 1960 and 1961, taking their blueprints with them. Peking was also angered by the reluctance of Moscow to use its nuclear muscle...
role of


  • TITLE: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (premier of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
    SECTION: Leadership of the Soviet Union

Mao Zedong

  • TITLE: Mao Zedong (Chinese leader)
    SECTION: Retreat and counterattack