The Sino-Soviet Rift

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-58335-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1964, this book summarizes, documents and analyses the developments in Sino-Soviet relations between February 1962 and November 1963.  The book explores what happened in this period, and what was revealed about the past and the present, and how this differed from previous periods. The author maintains that the rift was the single most significant ideological split since the Reformation in the 16th century with the formidable consequences of the dispute being mirrored in the foreign policy actions of neutral and Western nations.

The book includes a brief revised history of the dispute, the re-intensification of the dispute due to the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, the five Communist congresses in Europe between November 1962 and January 1963, the exchange of letters leading up to the Sino-Soviet meeting of July 1963, the signature of the Test Ban Treaty and the aftermath of both events.

The book is an indispensable tool for analysing and collating in a meaningful context, the flood of documentation which the Sino-Soviet rift released.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffith, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Basic Aspects of China’s Economic Development 1. The Heritage: China’s Economic Backwardness 2. General Problems of the Economic Development of China and their Solutions 3. Economic Achievements and Aims Part 2: The Countryside Under Mao 4. Agrarian Reform 5. Agricultural Taxation 6. Some Other Facets of the Peasant Situation 7. State Monopoly of Trade in Grain and other Agricultural Products 8. The Collectivisation of Agriculture 9. Mao nd the Peasantry: Historical Retrospect Part 3: The Towns Under Mao 10. The State Becomes Owner of Industrial, Trading and Banking Establishments 11. Regimentation of the Working Class 12. Increasing Inequalities Among Workers; Stakhanovism 13. The Role of the Trade Unions 14. Urban Workers’ Living Standards 15. Some Generalisations on Peking’s Labour Policy 16. Forced Labour 17. Bureaucratic Mismanagement – A Cancer Eating into China’s Economy 18. The New Privileged Part 4: The State 19. Introduction 20. Policy Control of Population 21. Propaganda 22. ‘Elections’ 23. The Party 24. Concentration of State Power 25. The Leader Part 5: China and Russia 26. The ‘Nine-Days’ War 27. Russia’s Looting of Manchuria 28. Did Stalin Help Mao to Come to Power? 29. Russia’s Economic Aid to China 30. China and Russia Contend for the Border Regions 31. China, Russia and the West.

Über Autor(innen)

William E. Griffith (1920–1998) was one of the world's leading experts on communism and the politics of Eastern and Central Europe. Professor Griffith came to MIT in 1959 as a senior research associate at the Center for International Studies and headed the Center's International Communist Project. He became a professor of political science in 1966 and was appointed the Ford International Professor of Political Science in 1972. He was also an adjunct professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Professor Griffith assumed emeritus status at MIT in 1990. While at MIT, he wrote and/or edited 11 books and numerous articles, providing a definitive body of work on communism and the politics of Eastern Europe. His analysis of the Cold War and the ultimate thaw was highly respected and influential. In 1979 he was appointed as an advisor to President Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a longtime colleague. Professor Griffith's retirement from MIT in 1990 coincided with the downfall of world communism. By then, he had turned his attention to Germany, particularly West German relationships with East Germany. He served as senior advisor to the US ambassador in Bonn from 1985-86.