Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

Part I. Brezhnev's Containment Policy

The Soviet Union's China Strategy

The Sino-Soviet Conflict in Perspective

Part II. The Road to Beijing

Leadership Change in the USSR and Sino-Soviet Relations

Pressures for Continuity and Change in Soviet China Policy in the Early 1980s

From Rapprochment to Normalization

The Gorbachev Revolution and China Policy

Part III. Toward Sino-Russian Partnership

Sino-Russian Relations in the Yeltsin Era

Moscow and Border Regions Debate Russia's China Policy

Conclusions

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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An important study of Russian-Chinese relations from Moscow's perspective

About the Author

Elizabeth Wishnick is associate professor of political science at Montclair State University and adjunct associate research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Reviews

"[Wishnick] brings to this important subject a mastery of Russian and Chinese sources, an impressive command of the relevant scholarship, much new material from Soviet state and party archives, and extensive interviews with Russian policy makers and with leading Russian specialists on China." -Journal of Cold War Studies