The Sino-Soviet Split, Part 2
On this episode of American Prestige, Jeremy Friedman on the Sino-Soviet Split.
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The Sino-Soviet Split, Pt. 2 w/ Jeremy Friedman | American Prestige
Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode and part one of this discussion for some background!
On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard, to talk about the Sino-Soviet Split. The conversation picks up in the 1960s with the Soviets’ push for peaceful coexistence vs the PRC and developing world’s push for anti-imperialist armed struggle, how the Cultural Revolution affects the calculation, Mao’s growing distrust of the USSR, the split itself, ideological vanguardism vs elitism, imperialism without capitalism, whether a split was inevitable, and more.
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Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev, Chinese Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi survey the Chinese troops at Peking Airport (now Beijing), China October 1959.
(Express Newspapers / Getty Images)On this episode of American Prestige, we welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard, to talk about the Sino-Soviet Split. The conversation picks up in the 1960s with the Soviets’ push for peaceful coexistence vs the PRC and developing world’s push for anti-imperialist armed struggle, how the Cultural Revolution affects the calculation, Mao’s growing distrust of the USSR, the split itself, ideological vanguardism vs elitism, imperialism without capitalism, whether a split was inevitable, and more.
Listen to Part 1 of the conversation here.
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