sino soviet split because of personalities?
- Created by: Jay Wynter
- Created on: 30-05-13 13:06
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- to what extent was the sino-soviet dispute a product of the personalities of mao and khruschev
- MAO
- mao belived he was next in line for communist leader after Stalin
- saw khruschev as revisionist
- KHRUSCHEV
- saw himself as the head of commmunism
- critical of mao's great leap forward
- ideological differences
- khruschev wanted to pursue peaceful coexistence
- mao was against this and saw Khrus as a lack of commitment to the comm. who had died
- Mao's great leap forward (1958) and cultural revolution (1966)
- khruschev repeatedly and openly opposed these
- khruschev wanted to pursue peaceful coexistence
- national interests
- taiwan straits crisis (1954 and 58)
- mao wanted quemoy and matsu
- sov disliked chinese tactics and the fact it could lead to a sino-US was that the USSR would have to take part in
- mao wanted quemoy and matsu
- korean war
- stalin forced mao into sending in troops
- stalin retained the right to intervene
- taiwan straits crisis (1954 and 58)
- MAO
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