Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

H-Diplo Roundtable

Volume

18

Issue

17

Pages

8-10

Abstract

[Introduction] Soviet General Secretary Nikita Krushchev was in Beijing in the fall of 1954 to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the Chinese revolution, open a huge exhibit designed to facilitate socialist bloc collaboration with Chine, and establish a positive tone and relationship with Chinese leaders who had reason to be wary of historic Soviet objectives in the Far East. In a speech before he left to mark the anniversary of the revolution, he focused on the sensitive question of colonialism in Chinese history, and the importance of the revolution in the creation of a new and independent china free of that history. "Foreign imperialists" always historically feared a "unified, strong China," he said. The Chinese revolution, the alliance, and the combined resources of the socialist bloc were all contributing to the resolution of the historic dilemmas of the East, and the "rebirth of the peoples of Asia."¹ Soviet leaders associated imperialism with the Western powers, and instead visualized a new world of 'proletarian internationalism' and fraternal' cooperation with the important new member of the socialist bloc.

Original Publication Citation

Jersild, A. (2017). [Review of the book Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History, by Z. Shen & Y. Xia]. H-Diplo Roundtable, 18(17) 8-10. http://www.tiny.cc/Roundtable-XVIII-17

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