{"product_id":"mending-fences-9780295981284","title":"Mending Fences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminates the forces driving Moscow's China policy, from the Ussuri River clashes in 1969 to the 'strategic partnership' of the 1990s. This book analyzes Russian-Chinese relations from Moscow's perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Cold War Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wishnick provides the first detailed account of Russia's policy toward China from 1969 to 1999, based on thorough research in Russian sources and some recently released U.S. government documents. . . . A reliable reference source.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A terrific book..Wishnick, by reason of her knowledge, perceptiveness, discernment, and linguistic skills in both Russian and Chinese, is highly qualified to narrate, conceptualize, and comment on a topic somewhat sidelined these days by more immediately dramatic international preoccupations, but on of immense importance to the evolving world order..Everyone wishing to be well informed should read this valuable work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Slavic Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A solid and fascinating analysis of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin..From its political discussion, \u003ci\u003eMending Fences\u003c\/i\u003e opens and new and important perspective on Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1970s-1990s, a period that has seldom attracted historians' attention.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I. Brezhnev’s Containment Policy\u003cbr\u003e The Soviet Union’s China Strategy\u003cbr\u003e The Sino-Soviet Conflict in Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II. The Road to Beijing\u003cbr\u003e Leadership Change in the USSR and Sino-Soviet Relations\u003cbr\u003e Pressures for Continuity and Change in Soviet China Policy in the Early 1980s\u003cbr\u003e From Rapprochment to Normalization\u003cbr\u003e The Gorbachev Revolution and China Policy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III. Toward Sino-Russian Partnership\u003cbr\u003e Sino-Russian Relations in the Yeltsin Era\u003cbr\u003e Moscow and Border Regions Debate Russia’s China Policy\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400910971223,"sku":"9780295981284","price":110.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295981284.jpg?v=1730471922","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mending-fences-9780295981284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}