sino-soviet relations

Question 1

Malinovsky incident

Answer 1

1964
-Talks in Moscow, where the soviet defence minister Malinovsky told the Chinese delegate Marshal He Long that the Chinese should get rid of Mao.
-Led to the talks immediately collapsing despite soviet apologies, the two sides widened.

Question 2

Vietnam

Answer 2

April 1965- USSR requested a meeting with china + north Vietnam to form a collective response to the increase in US involvement in the war
—> The meeting never took place as china resisted, Mao wanted NV to remain dependent on china

Question 3

Vietnam: what did the USSR propose? What did china think?

Answer 3

-The establishment of a Soviet air force to station MiG-21 fighter planes to protect Sino-Vietnamese borders
-China saw it as an intrusion on their territory

Question 4

What’s the significance of Vietnam to Sino-Soviet relations?

Answer 4

-Deteriorates their relationship further as by this point, china views the ussr as imperialists + revisionists, deviating away from the path of socialism

Question 5

Cultural revolution

Answer 5

1966
-Mao began the cultural revolution as he saw a drift away from the ideological purity of the Chinese revolution

Question 6

What did he design the cultural revolution for?

Answer 6

-To restore ideological correctness + identify ideological deviants

Question 7

Consequence of the cultural revolution

Answer 7

-Mao strengthened his own power
-Sino-Soviet split gained momentum.

Question 8

Border disputes

Answer 8

Feb 1967- USSR Stationed military forces in Mongolia + eastern Kazakhstan.
-Sino-soviet border alarmed the Chinese + reinforced their belief that the Soviets intended to attack.

Question 9

Border disputes: what strategy’s did china adopt?

Answer 9

-‘Active defence’ which was based on limited aggression designed to deter any initial soviet aggression.

Question 10

Border disputes consequence

Answer 10

-Border talks failed to bring about improvements in sino-soviet relations which became hostile by 1970
-Mao began to establish rapport with the US

Question 11

Significance of the border disputes

Answer 11

-Showed how the USSR viewed China as juniors rather than seeing them as equals
-Showed how the shared ideological functions of both sides proved to be the cause of their divide.