PDF Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by David Farber in History

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A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950; escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split; Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture; which became one of the defining events of the Cold War. Identifying the primary role of disputes over Marxist-Leninist ideology; Lüthi traces their devastating impact in sowing conflict between the two nations in the areas of economic development; party relations; and foreign policy. The source of this estrangement was Mao Zedong's ideological radicalization at a time when Soviet leaders; mainly Nikita Khrushchev; became committed to more pragmatic domestic and foreign policies. Using a wide array of archival and documentary sources from three continents; Lüthi presents a richly detailed account of Sino-Soviet political relations in the 1950s and 1960s. He explores how Sino-Soviet relations were linked to Chinese domestic politics and to Mao's struggles with internal political rivals. Furthermore; Lüthi argues; the Sino-Soviet split had far-reaching consequences for the socialist camp and its connections to the nonaligned movement; the global Cold War; and the Vietnam War. The Sino-Soviet Split provides a meticulous and cogent analysis of a major political fallout between two global powers; opening new areas of research for anyone interested in the history of international relations in the socialist world.