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Sino-Soviet Relations: New Perspectives

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Soviet Foreign Policy

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The attention ofthe world’s media during the 1980s has focused on the drama of US-Soviet relations, lurching from ‘Evil Empire’ epithets and war psychosis to tentative arms cuts and talk of a new era, yet the biggest story of the decade may in fact be the normalization of SinoSoviet relations. The normalization process was slow, and characterized by three distinct pauses, yet it was surprisingly steady, and evermore- comprehensive. The relationship has been transformed.

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Jacobsen, C.G. (1989). Sino-Soviet Relations: New Perspectives. In: Jacobsen, C.G. (eds) Soviet Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11341-5_9

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