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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Sino-Soviet alliance
    sub title: an international history
  name:
    name part: Jersild, Austin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In 1950, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets. Jersild zeros in on the ground-level experiences of the socialist bloc advisers in China, who were involved in everything from the development of university curricula, the exploration for oil and railway construction to piano lessons. Their goal was to reproduce a Chinese administrative elite in their own image that could serve as a valuable ally in the Soviet bloc's struggle against the United States. Interestingly, the USSR's allies in Central Europe were as frustrated by the "great power chauvinism" of the Soviet Union as was China. By exposing this aspect of the story, Jersild shows how the alliance, and finally the split, had a true international dimension.
  table of contents: Introduction : the imperial question transformed : the socialist bloc as international history -- Proletarian internationalism in practice : pay, misbehavior, and incentives under socialism -- Learning from the Central Europeans : authority and expertise in the era of reform -- Interpreting the red poppy : practical learning, spiritual pollution -- China's conditional affirmation of Soviet leadership, 1956-1957 -- The socialist bloc comes to its senses : responding to the Great Leap Forward -- China's outreach to a world betrayed : the response to Soviet "revisionism," 1958-1964 -- Friends, neighbors, enemies : the Chinese transformation of the friendship society -- Conclusion : frustration and betrayal : Russian imperialism, Chinese ambition, Central European pragmatism.
  note: Austin Jersild.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Communism
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Social History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / China
  classification: DS740.5.S65 J47 2014
  classification: 327.51047
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Cold War history
  identifier: 9781469611594 (hardback)
  identifier: 1469611597 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013028647
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131021
    record change date: 20151206092301.0
    record identifier: in00003454731