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Authors: Odd Arne Westad

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37. See, for instance, record of conversation, Chervonenko-Deng Xiaoping, November 6, 1959, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 52, pa. 442, d. 7, pp. 104-7. See also Mari Olsen,
Solidarity and National Revolution: The Soviet Union and the Vietnamese Communists, 1954-1960
(Oslo: Institute for Defence Studies, 1997).
38. Memorandum of conversation, Chervonenko-Chen Yi, August 4, 1960, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 53, pa. 454, d. 8, pp. 204-18.
39. Kozlov, "Ob itogakh Soveshchaniia predstavitelei bratskikh partii v Bukhareste i ob oshibochnykh pozitsiiakh rukovodstva TsK KPK po nekotorym printsipialnym voprosam marksistsko-leninskoi teorii i sovremennykh mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii" [On the results of the conference of leaders of brotherly parties in Bucharest and on the erroneous positions of the heads of the CCP Central Committee on some main questions of Marxist-Leninist theory and contemporary international relations] (draft), July 13, 1960, TsKhSD, CPSU CC Plenum Collection, Twenty-first Party Congress. I am grateful to Vladislav Zubok for drawing my attention to this document.
40. Record of conversation, S. V. Chervonenko-Mao Zedong, December 26, 1960, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 53, pa. 454, d. 9, pp. 98-105; for an English translation, see
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996): 167-9. Deng may have tried to steer a middle course, at least for a while. In a meeting with Chervonenko in early June, he praised Khrushchev' s speech in Paris on May 16, which had "explained the soundness of the position of the countries of the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union." Deng added that he had not yet heard Mao's opinion, since the chairman was absent from Beijing. Record of conversation, Chervonenko-Deng Xiaoping, June 1, 1960, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 53, pa. 454, d. 8, pp. 165-9.
41. "Zusammenkunft der Delegationen der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion und der Kommunistichen Partei Chinas im Juli 1963 unkorrigierte Rohübersetzung" [Meetings of the delegations of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China in July 1963 uncorrected raw translation], Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der ehemaligen DDR im Bundesarchiv (SAPMO-BArch), Berlin, Bestandsignatur DY J IV 2/201, Aktenband 696 [hereafter July 1963-SAPMO-BArch], 91.
42. Chinese government notes to Soviet government, September 3 and October 20, 1962, AVPRF, f. 0100, op. 55, pa. 480, d. 2, pp. 70-4, 90-102.
43. July 1963-SAPMO-BArch, 190.

 

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44. For good overviews, see Robert Arthur Levine, ed.,
Transition and Turmoil in the Atlantic Alliance
(New York: Crane Russak, 1992); Roger Bucldey,
U.S.-Japan Alliance Diplomacy, 1945-1990
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
45. Good insights into these problems can be found in Stephen M. Wait,
The Origins of Alliances
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997), and Ole R. Holsti, P. Terrence Hopmann, and John D. Sullivan,
Unity and Disintegration in International Alliances: Comparative Studies
(New York: Wiley, 1973). On China, see Odd Arne Westad, "The Foreign Policies of Revolutionary Parties: The CCP in a Comparative Perspective," in Hunt and Niu, eds.,
Toward a History of Chinese Communist Foreign Relations.
46. David Mayers,
Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1955
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986); see also John Lewis Gaddis,
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 148.

 

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