Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

H-Diplo Roundtable

Volume

16

Issue

27

Pages

22-24

Abstract

[Introduction] I was trying to do justice to several threads of inquiry in The Sino-Soviet Alliance. As the archives opened up in the early 1990s and wonderful new opportunities emerged to study long-inaccessible materials, I remained impressed by the tendency of scholars of foreign policy and international relations to confine themselves to the sources traditionally used by diplomatic historians, in this case the somewhat limited Politburo and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) memoranda. The early work of the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), for example, was path-breaking yet methodologically conservative. Such an approach was entirely appropriate, however, as the restrictions of the Cold War era left scholars ignorant not just of the contents of high-level discussions but even in many cases of the existence of the meetings themselves.

Comments

Bibliographic information: Roundtable Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse.

Roundtable and Web Production Editor: George Fujii.

On the book by Austin Jersild, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. (ISBN: 978-1-4696-1159-4).

Link to publisher landing page available at: https://networks.h-net.org/pdf-h-diplo-roundtable-xvi-27-15-june-2015

Original Publication Citation

Jersild, A. (2015). Author's response. [Review of The Sino-Soviet alliance: An international history, by A. Jersild]. H-Diplo Roundtable 16(27), 22-24. https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/roundtable-xvi-27.pdf#page=22

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