Mikhail Gorbachev’s death last month unleashed numerous commentaries and evaluations of his legacy. Predictably, many of these focused on Beijing’s perception of the last Soviet leader and what his ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Jeremy Friedman on the relationship between China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without ...

FOR the fifth time in six months, the world’s two largest Communist states battled each other across their common border. In the wild, thinly populated region where China’s Sinkiang region and Soviet ...

Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria; Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest 1922-1945. University of California Press Mao Tse-tung, “Our Study and the Current Situation” (April 12, 1944), in Selected ...

David A. Merkel, managing director of Summit International Advisors, LLC, spoke about the Sino-Soviet split during the Cold War, the two sides’ conflicting interests, and what that means for great ...

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged.

Nearly every analyst during the Cold War agreed that, if Moscow and Washington could keep the nukes from flying, the Central Front in Europe would prove decisive in war between the United States and ...

THE Chinese call it Chen Pao, or Treasure. The Russians call it Damansky. Both claim the tiny, uninhabited island, located in the midstof the frozen Ussuri river that forms the common border of ...