Maps viii
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations and Terms xiii
Transliteration and Diacritical Marks xix
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Historical Background, 1921-1955 19
Chapter Two: The Collapse of Socialist Unity, 1956-1957 46
Chapter Three: Mao's Challenges, 1958 80
Chapter Four: Visible Cracks, 1959 114
Chapter Five: World Revolution and the Collapse of Economic Relations, 1960 157
Chapter Six: Ambiguous Truce, 1961-1962 194
Chapter Seven: Mao Resurgent, 1962-1963 219
Chapter Eight: The American Factor, 1962-1963 246
Chapter Nine: Khrushchev's Fall and the Collapse of Party Relations, 1963-1966 273
Chapter Ten: Vietnam and the Collapse of the Military Alliance, 1964-1966 302
Conclusion 340
Essay on the Sources 353
Index 361

A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War. Identifying the primary role of disputes over Marxist-Leninist ideology, Lüthi traces their devastating impact in sowing conflict between the two nations in the areas of economic development, party relations, and foreign policy. The source of this estrangement was Mao Zedong's ideological radicalization at a time when Soviet leaders, mainly Nikita Khrushchev, became committed to more pragmatic domestic and foreign policies.
Using a wide array of archival and documentary sources from three continents, Lüthi presents a richly detailed account of Sino-Soviet political relations in the 1950s and 1960s. He explores how Sino-Soviet relations were linked to Chinese domestic politics and to Mao's struggles with internal political rivals. Furthermore, Lüthi argues, the Sino-Soviet split had far-reaching consequences for the socialist camp and its connections to the nonaligned movement, the global Cold War, and the Vietnam War.
The Sino-Soviet Split provides a meticulous and cogent analysis of a major political fallout between two global powers, opening new areas of research for anyone interested in the history of international relations in the socialist world.

Lorenz M. Lüthi is assistant professor of the history of international relations at McGill University.