After leaning to one side : China and its allies in the Cold War /
"Traces the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing tension over the Korean and Vietnam wars. Underscoring the theme of inherent conflict within the communist movement, this book shows that while that movement was an international campaign with an imposing t...
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Washington, D.C. : Stanford, Calif. :
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Cold War International History Project series.
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Table of Contents:
- The making of an alliance for cold and hot wars
- China's decision to enter the Korean War
- A troubled partnership in war
- The decision to end the Korean War
- Helping-hand diplomacy : Soviet experts in China
- Comrades plus brothers : Sino-Soviet border relations in the 1950s
- Unrealized partnership : from joint fleet to Great Leap
- Antagonized centers and troubled frontiers
- From wartime allies to peacetime associates
- Vietnam and Chinese policy toward the United States
- Epilogue : the demise of a communist alliance.