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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the efforts of Soviet leaders simultaneously to maintain their supremacy in the international communist movement, defend their borders from a perceived China threat, and ensure the compliance of regional authorities in enforcing China policy.
Trade Review"[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 *
"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."
* Choice *
"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."
* Slavic Review *
"A solid and fascinating analysis of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin..From its political discussion, Mending Fences opens and new and important perspective on Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1970s-1990s, a period that has seldom attracted historians' attention."
* H-Net Reviews *
Table of ContentsContents
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
