Soviet experts in China

Author: Shen Zhihua
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is specifically dedicated to examining the history of Soviet experts in China from 1948 to 1960. In the study of modern international relations, particularly the Cold War international history (or the New Cold War History) that has emerged in the past decade, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union has become one of the most attractive research fields for scholars worldwide. The establishment, evolution, and outcome of the Sino-Soviet alliance are undoubtedly significant events in modern socialist history and Cold War international history, as well as one of the research topics historians have paid great attention to. The reason lies in the fact that the development and changes in the Sino-Soviet relationship, to some extent, not only determined the fate of the contemporary international communist movement but also influenced the dynamics of the Cold War confrontation between the Eastern and Western blocs for nearly half a century. With the end of the Cold War, research on this topic in international academia has seen a qualitative leap. The end of the Cold War has bridged the distance between researchers and their subject of study, allowing scholars from various countries to break free from the constraints of Cold War ideology and mental frameworks, examine the entire process of Sino-Soviet relationship changes objectively, and thus achieve many convincing results.