1st Edition

Diplomacy and Deception Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-27

By Bruce Elleman Copyright 1997
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while simultaneously cultivating and manipulating communist movements in those same countries. The Chinese case offers a particularly interesting example of this dual policy, for when the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, their discovery of the nature of Moscow's imperial designs on Chinese territory... Read more
The Diplomatic Situation Prior to 1919; The Chinese Delegation's Proposals; Wilson's Compromise Solution; The Versailles Treaty's Shantung Resolutions; The May Fourth Movement; The Versailles Treaty and Soviet Russia 1. The Opening of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Negotiations 2. The Origins of the United Front Policy 3. Outer Mongolia Enters the Communist Bloc 4. Assertion of Soviet Control over the Chinese Eastern Railway 5. China's Revocation of the Boxer Indemnity 6. The Restoration of Russian Territorial Concessions 7. The Resumption of Russian Extraterritoriality 8. Soviet Foreign Policy and the Chinese Communist Party. Conclusions: Status Quo and Outer Mongolian Independence; Forming a Soviet-KMT Alliance; The Chiang-Stalin Secret Pact; Stalin Retakes the Chinese Eastern Railway; Soviet Territorial Concessions and Extraterritoriality

Biography

Bruce Elleman