On this episode of American Prestige, Jeremy Friedman on the relationship between China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk ...

The conflict between little Albania and the Soviet Union is today at the center of the Soviet-Chinese rift. This first became apparent at the Bucharest Congress of June 1960, when of all the heads of ...

In 1990, in a landmark deal, China became the first export customer for the Soviet Union’s top-tier Su-27 “Flanker” fighter ...

If the Soviet Union were sincerely faithful to communist doctrine, they say, it would not now wish to profit from the evil actions of the Tsarist régime, but would restore to a fellow-communist state ...

Rebellion in Sinlciang. The degree of Russian control over the borderlands varied through the following decades. During the 1930s, the Soviet Union’s in fluence grew steadily in the far-west ...

YOU will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet union any more than you will find one in a duck’s egg,” said Red Chi nese Foreign Minister Chen Yi last July.

The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and “China’s tomorrow” during the golden decade of the 1950s. However, it soon became China’s ideological archrival and security threat following ...

That ideological schism had practical implications. In 1960, the Soviet Union withdrew all of its advisers from China, including those tasked with assisting Beijing to develop its own nuclear weapons.

It took about 15 years for the Sino-Soviet rupture to prove Dulles right. The key, today, is to maximize the costs China and Russia must pay for their relationship.