Mingjiang Li is Assistant Professor at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

This book, the result of extensive research on declassified documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and on numerous other new Chinese materials, sheds new light on the events surrounding the Sino-Soviet split and makes significant contributions to the debate.

1. Introduction 2. Ideological Dilemma in International Politics 3. The Soviet 20th Party Congress and Emerging Disputes in 1958 4. Mao's Great Leap Forward and Sino-Soviet Disputes, 1959-1960 5. Temporary Calm and Deterioration in Relations, 1960-1962 6. The Growth of Domestic Radicalism and Polemics with Moscow, 1963-1964 7. Short-lived Détente and the End of Party Relations, 1965-1966 8. Sino-Soviet Confrontation during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969. 9. Conclusions