S/H/44. The Causes of the Sino-Soviet Split

This paper examines the turbulent relationship between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China from the latter's establishment to the Nuclear Test Ban treaty of 1963. It accounts for the deterioration in relations and scrutinizes the ideological and diplomatic divergence that developed from the mid 1950s after the death of Stalin culminating in the full blown polemic between Khruschev and Mao from 1960. It also considers the triangular politics of the US that attempted to widen the gulf between the two Communist powers.